[concurrency] Common Concurrent Problems

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Jun 9 22:23:45 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Pete wrote:
>
> The particular problem (tail | grep) came out of Beaz's class and was  
> incredibly helpful for comparing generators vs. coroutines.  We *should* 
> find a problem that is actually concurrent - how about tail|grep'ing 
> multiple input files?

What about a spider?  Feel free to rip this off and rewrite as multiple
processes (preferably with credit but I don't really care):

http://pythoncraft.com/OSCON2001/ThreadPoolSpider.py
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