I'm writing a small program which uses different threads to monitor an IMAP mailbox and an RSS feed. If network is not available when the program starts, both threads will sleep for a while and try again. It seems that the first thread succeeds when the network becomes available will cause the other thread to always give a gaierror "No address associated with hostname". The weird thing is that this only happens when the program starts with network unavailable. If network is available when the program starts, both threads work well, even if the network drops in the middle, the threads can recover properly when the network comes back alive. Is Python socket thread-unsafe or is it because of some other problems?
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