Spawning a thread from within a thread works just fine. Calling thread.start() is a non-blocking function and returns immediately. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Omer Ihsan <omrihsan at gmail.com> wrote: > is there anything as "nested threading"....that is, call a thread from > within a thread. > in this case how will thread locking take place. >> for example initially there were two functions that were called using > threading.Thread. these wont get unlocked unless both of them are done > with whatever they need to do. if say function 2 calls another thread. > then what?? >> inquisitive....:-| > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20100325/b8ceca82/attachment-0001.html>