On Jul 22, 5:22 pm, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Millman wrote: > > In this particular case, when it is executed, it does a whole lot > > more. It reads in some parameters, establishes a socket connection, > > starts a thread, and starts monitoring the socket using select.select. > > It also exposes some functions that disguise the complexity of reading > > from and writing to the socket. > > This is not, in general, a good idea, no matter how appealing! > There is some subtle stuff going on within the chain of imports, > and firing off a new thread is quite likely to confuse it in > nasty ways later on. Less attractive though it may be, you're > better off having a "startup" function or whatever and calling > that: > > import Utils.client > Utils.client.startup () > > TJG
Makes sense. Thanks, Tim. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
