python threads?

[colet-KCgK2vT7wad/90uGnh1m2w at public.gmane.org (Cole Tuininga)]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 14:43 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> Eww, although that explains a lot; I tried to do threading for my http
> requests so my app wasn't waiting around for http round trips before
> loading.

This is a perfect legit use of python threading, IMHO.  Since the call
is likely to block while waiting for the IO (make sure you don't set up
non-blocking sockets or you'll lose the benefit), why not let some other
code execute?

> Now I get segment faults intermittently and a whole bunch of other weird things.

Stack traces and execution termination or actual seg faults?  Seg faults
are an indication of bigger problems - you shouldn't be able to seg
fault the python interpreter without outside help (an external C lib,
hardware problems, etc)

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Cole Tuininga
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