*args question (correction)

[Tim Chase]

>    thread.start_new_thread(myfunc, "some string", 42)

This should have been

   thread.start_new_thread(myfunc, ("some string", 42))

> because all the subsequent values after the function-handle/name 
> get passed into the function when it gets called.  As if the 
> start_new_thread() function was defined as
> 
>    def start_new_thread(fn, *args, **kwargs):
>      thread_magic_happens_here()
>      result = fn(*args, **kwargs)
>      return more_thread_magic_happens_here(result)

and this should have been

   def start_new_thread(fn, args=[], kwargs={}):
     thread_magic()
     result = fn(*args, **kwargs)

My threading-library usage is a little rusty, so I forgot those 
were literal parameters, not args/kwargs that became more 
idiomatic in other code authored later.

-tkc