[Python-Dev] Threading in the Standard Library Tour Part II (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Aug 16 05:59:36 CEST 2004

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:

Many platform GUIs require that all or most all GUI activities be consolidated to one and only one thread. I don't think any of them 'care' if another thread is also running, but it can't communicate directly with the GUI.

That's true, but it also applies to other external resources, such as files.

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