David LeBlanc wrote (top-posting...David, please don't top-post):
>  
>  hehehe
>  
>  We'd have to call it thread.giveitup() since, in spite of my arguments to
>  the contrary, "yield" now has different semantics in Python then in most
>  other languages/libraries that support the keyword.

Alternatively, we could use threading.Thread.yield_(), in keeping with the 
ugly precedent established with unittest.TestCase.assert_() and the 
recently discussed poplib.POP3.pass_() methods.

-Peter
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