> This sounds like homework... what have you tried, and what happened? heheh naaah no cheating here. I just provided the example this way to make as clear as possible what I want to do. Return the returned value from a threaded function.
apparently this does not work as I hoped: return Thread(target=message_function).start() > Have you looked at the docs of the threading module? Lost in there -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list