[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:54:13 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What I would question here is what other things will be part
> > of the "concurrent" package, and who will implement them. Are there
> > plans for that? (or even tracker issues open?)
> 
> I'm not sure it is called out explicitly in the PEP, but the specific 
> example that came up in the previous discussions was something like 
> "concurrent.pool" to hold a thread vs process agnostic worker pool
> interface based on the existing Pool interface in multiprocessing
> (with concrete implementations for both threading and
> multiprocessing).

Ha, I'm a bit surprised. Isn't it what "futures" already provides?
(except that for some reason it insists on the "SomeExecutor" naming
scheme)
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/#processpoolexecutor

Regards

Antoine.