thread difficulties

[gabitzu4224]

ive posted some other question in the past few days but they dont seem to appear...anyway ive researched my problem a bit more and ive narrowed it down o one question:

why do threads just exit even though the function i call using threads has raw_input() in it ?

Note: this happens while program is running in DOS, in the interpreter the threads act like i expect them to do, but in DOS they just exit

example:
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import thread

def input():
data = raw_input()
return data

thread.start_ne w(input,())

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this exits before i can input the data....why does this happen and how can i get passed it?

[Subsciber123]

First, use [ code=python ] [ /code ] (without the spaces) tags around your code. Second, there is no meaning to returning values from functions called in a new thread. Third, I have no idea why the thread is exiting. I don't know if raw_input() is thread safe on windows. It could very well be, but it might not.