[mod_python] off topic: thread handling

Hi All

This is slightly off topic, I have a program that supports my
mod_python app that spawns
x nr of threads to go and fetch data from a remote site using urllib2,
rather than doing it from the mod_python req. If there's a comms
problem I tell the thread to sleep. In the past this worked I have
reworked the code a bit so that a comms problem now raise an
exception. The sleep now happes in the exception code block. It
appears that when a thread has raised an exception and the sleep is
invoked that all the threads get stuck. I'm using standard threads and
I'm not locking my calls just yet.

Marinus