On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:03:35 +1000,
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Now that we have concurrent.futures, is there any plan for
>> > multiprocessing to follow suit? PEP 3148 mentions a hope to add or move
>> > things in the future [0], which would be now.
>>
>> As Jesse said, moving multiprocessing or threading wholesale was never
>> part of the plan. The main motivator of that comment in PEP 3148 was
>> the idea of creating 'concurrent.pool', which would provide a
>> concurrent worker pool API modelled on multiprocessing.Pool that
>> supported either threads or processes as the back end, just like the
>> executor model in concurrent.futures.
>
> Executors *are* pools, so I don't know what you're talking about.