[AstroPy] Plan to port astropy to python3?

Perry Greenfield perry at stsci.edu
Tue Jun 7 11:39:48 EDT 2011


On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Bridgman, William T. wrote:

> This is the first I've heard that my main components of interest are
> ALL working on Python 3.
>
> Which means I will probably try a test installation of Python 3 on one
> of my systems this summer.
>
> I want to make more use of threading on multi-core systems since
> graphical rendering is a lot of 'embarrassingly parallel' type
> processing.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
>
> Tom
>
Threading in Python won't necessarily exploit multi-core systems very  
well. You may want to look at other alternatives in Python.

Perry





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