bz2 & cpu usage

[David Rushby]

Benjamin Niemann <b.niemann at betternet.de> wrote in message news:<cl37a7$opn$1 at online.de>...
> Under windows do something similar using the TaskManager -> Set Priority... 
> There should some windows API call to do this from your program, 
> probably involving the win32 extension.

Indeed.
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import win32api, win32process

win32process.SetPriorityClass(win32api.GetCurrentProcess(),
win32process.BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS)

... Invoke the compression portion of the program ...

win32process.SetPriorityClass(win32api.GetCurrentProcess(),
win32process.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS)
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win32all build 159 and earlier are missing the constant
win32process.BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS; that can be fixed with:
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win32process.BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = 16384
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