On Apr 16, 10:44 am, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article <e6008cc8-50f0-4d78-be78-ec6e73b97... at 22g2000prx.googlegroups.com>, > Raymond Hettinger <pyt... at rcn.com> wrote: >>>> >Threading is really only an answer if you need to share data between > >threads, if you only have limited scaling needs, and are I/O bound > >rather than CPU bound >> Threads are also useful for user interaction (i.e. GUI apps). > I suppose that's why most GUI toolkits use a multithreaded model. Jean-Paul