[AstroPy] Plan to port astropy to python3?

[Matt Davis]

Python 3 is adding some new concurrency tools, something Erik brought up in a local list a while ago. To quote Erik:

Python 3.2 added a new package called 'concurrent' that has an even higher-level API built on top of the threading, multiprocessing, and other related modules.  See:

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#pep-3148-the-concurrent-futures-module

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/concurrent.futures.html#module-concurrent.futures

- Matt

On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Perry Greenfield wrote:

> 
> 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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