[IPython-dev] drop-in replacement for multiprocessing

[MinRK]

I didn't mean to start a naming discussion, just that I don't think
colliding with the stdlib is a good plan.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 June 2015 at 10:44, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and go with multiprocess or multiprocessing2 or some such.
>>
> I'd suggest something more explicit like multiprocessing_dill. It seems
> presumptuous call a module 'thing2' without the blessing of the 'thing'
> maintainers. They might want to use that name one day, like the Python 2.7+
> unittest package is backported as unittest2.
>
> 'multiprocess' sounds liable to cause confusion - if I saw that and
> 'multiprocessing' in a tab completion list, I'd probably have to check
> which one was which.
>
> Thomas
>
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