Given the following code... #!/usr/bin/env python
import time import thread def myfunction(string,sleeptime,*args): while 1: print string time.sleep(sleeptime) #sleep for a specified amount of time. if __name__=="__main__": thread.start_new_thread(myfunction,("Thread No:1",2)) while 1:pass Taken from following URL.... http://linuxgazette.net/107/pai.html How can myfunction() extract the tuple ("Thread No:1",2) from start_new_thread() if myfunction is only being passed the single arg ("Thread No:1",2) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list