Auto-parallelizing with decorators?

[Josiah Carlson]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> In article <po22m4xvvj1.ln2 at news.conpoint.com>,
>  Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was thinking about how a lot of Lisp proponents claim that Lisp is
>> inherently parallelizable because its functions don't have (or are not
>> supposed to have) side effects, and therefore the compiler can easily tell
>> which calls may be run in parallel instead of strictly serially.  I'm not a
>> Lisp expert so I can't say whether that's true or not, but it seems like an
>> interesting idea for Python.
> 
> By the way, I uploaded a sample implementation (in Python) of what I had 
> in mind to http://www.honeypot.net/multi-processing-map-python .  Please 
> let me know what you think of it and whether it seems remotely 
> interesting or goofy.

Try the Processing package available at the Python package index. 
Create as many processes as you want, then toss the data you want 
processed into a Queue.  Watch magically as your data gets processed.

  - Josiah