[Tutor] Differences in running a multithreaded script under IDLEand otherwise

[Alan Gauld]

>   While running the foll script by double-clicking it (under 
> WinXP), it
> runs as expected. However, when I run it via IDLE, it hangs 
> after a few
> secs (no runtime errors - just hangs). Why does this happen?

My guess is that IDLE is already runnning threads of its own and 
may
not like it when threads start running more threads... But I 
don't know.,
I've never used IDLE for any threading, I'm a vim and console man 
myself!

Alan G.