As someone learning python (on mostly windows, but I test on ubuntu now and then to see if it works well) my advice is to just learn the multiprocessing version

As someone learning python (on mostly windows, but I test on ubuntu now and then to see if it works well) my advice is to just learn the multiprocessing version as shown by hythloday. I had a lot of problems with threads not exiting/joining properly, and even my multiprocessing code was goofy on windows. I used the "poison pill" method at http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/multiprocessing/communication.html#multiprocessing-queues http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/multiprocessing/communica... and everything works on ubuntu. I'm aware of the __main__ thing for windows, but I don't think that's my problem :-/