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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:50:35 +1000
Subject: Re: Adding thread module support to Ubuntu 3 for Python3
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:34 AM,  <kenakahn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 23, 2014 4:12:34 PM UTC-4, kena...@gmail.com wrote:
>> What package do I need to install to get thread support (import thread) for Python 3 running under ubuntu 3?
>
> Found it.  The import statement changed to "import _thread" for python3.

Actually, that should give you a strong hint that you shouldn't be
using that module. The leading underscore says that the module is
private/internal. The thread module's docstring under Python 2
suggests that you should instead be using "import threading", which
works on both versions.

ChrisA