[issue9062] urllib.urlopen crashes when launched from a thread

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: There isn't a problem with urllib with respect to threading as such. There are programs and examples which use this module in multi-threading environment. I could not run your app, I am not on Mac, but some of the changes you could try is: - Not to pollute

[issue9062] urllib.urlopen crashes when launched from a thread

New submission from Olivier Berten : I'm writing SwatchBooker , an app that's (among other things) reading some data from the web. When urllib.urlopen is called first from within a secondary thread, the app crashes (or freezes). If it's been called first fro