[Python-Dev] Improved thread switching

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 18:45:37 CET 2008


Even I, as a strong advocate for it's inclusion think I should finish
the PEP and outline all of the questions/issues that may come out of
it.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Facundo Batista
<facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/20, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org>:
>
>
>  > Since we officially encourage people to spawn processes instead of
>  >  threads, I think that this would be a great idea.  The processing module
>  >  has a similar API to threading.  It's easy to use, works well, and most
>  >  importantly, gives us some place to point people to when they complain
>  >  about the GIL.
>
>  I'm +1 to include the processing module in the stdlib.
>
>  just avoid confussions, with these libraries with alike names, I'm
>  meaning this [1] module, the one that emulates the semantics of
>  threading module.
>
>  Does anybody has strong reasons for this module to not get included?
>
>  Regards,
>
>  [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing
>
>  --
>  .    Facundo
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