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The following script raises several "_strptime_time" AttributeErrors (on OS X 10.4 at least).
If time.strptime is used before starting the threads, then no exception is raised (the issue may thus come from strptime.py not being imported in a thread safe manner).
import time
import thread
def f():
 for m in xrange(1, 13):
 for d in xrange(1,29):
 time.strptime("2010%02d%02d"%(m,d),"%Y%m%d")
for _ in xrange(10):
 thread.start_new_thread(f, ())
time.sleep(3)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "[...]/test.py", line 75, in f
> time.strptime("2010%02d%02d"%(m,d),"%Y%m%d")
> AttributeError: _strptime_time