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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:18:19 +1100
Subject: Re: Thought of the day
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> A newbie programmer had a problem and thought
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> python-list@python.org and on Google Groups".
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> And now we have the problem of two threads...

And, when faced with problems of having two threads, the most obvious
solution is to add sleep() calls, so it looks like the above... Am I
dragging the analogy out too far?

ChrisA