The second argument to start_new_thread() is not a tuple, as pointed
out by Curtis Jensen on c.l.py and forwarded by Fredrik Lundh.
diff --git a/Modules/threadmodule.c b/Modules/threadmodule.c
index a625146..46dd35a 100644
--- a/Modules/threadmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/threadmodule.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
static PyObject *
thread_PyThread_start_new_thread(PyObject *self, PyObject *fargs)
{
- PyObject *func, *args = NULL, *keyw = NULL;
+ PyObject *func, *args, *keyw = NULL;
struct bootstate *boot;
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(fargs, "OO|O:start_new_thread", &func, &args, &keyw))
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
}
if (!PyTuple_Check(args)) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
- "optional 2nd arg must be a tuple");
+ "2nd arg must be a tuple");
return NULL;
}
if (keyw != NULL && !PyDict_Check(keyw)) {