Multiple simultaneous Python interpreters

White Flame (aka David Holz) whiteflame52 at y.a.h.o.o.com
Wed Mar 19 15:22:52 EST 2003


"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3E78C112.48015ABE at engcorp.com...
> Perhaps you're overestimating your need for independence in the multiple
> instances?  Have you considered whether that's absolutely necessary for
> your design?

Yes, it is absolutely necessary.  Independence is crucial for the ability to
kill off and clean up a runaway script (ie, one that is adding elements to a
dictionary in an infinite loop) without taking down the application or other
simultaneously running scripts.  Plus, various interpreters should have
different import functionality available to them, giving various "sandbox"
models.  These are 2 fundamental points to the design.






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