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  1. This directory contains some demonstrations of the thread module.
  2. This module is only available, optionally, for a few platforms: SGI
  3. IRIX 4 and IRIX 5, SunOS 4 (not completely functioning), Solaris 2,
  4. and supposedly any platform that supports Posix Threads (currently
  5. only tested with KSR's implementation).  See ../../Python/thread.c.
  6.  
  7. These are mostly "proof of concept" type applications:
  8.  
  9. bug.py        Demonstrate a bug with importing modules in threads.
  10. condition.py    Condition variables test by Tim Peters.
  11. find.py        Parallelized "find(1)" (looks for directories).
  12. Generator.py    Generator class implemented with threads.
  13. telnet.py    Version of ../sockets/telnet.py using threads.
  14. wpi.py        Version of ../scripts/pi.py using threads and stdwin.
  15.