Twisted for non-networking applications

[Bryan Olson]

Kottiyath wrote:
>    Is it a good idea to use Twisted inside my application, even though
> it has no networking part in it?
>    Basically, my application needs lots of parallel processing - but I
> am rather averse to using threads - 

With or without threads, the Python interpreter does not do parallel 
processing. You could use multiple processes, or a thread could call an 
extension module that releases Python's global interpreter lock, but 
Python itself does not offer parallel processing.

> due to myraid issues it can cause.
> So, I was hoping to use a reactor pattern to avoid the threads.

The reactor pattern describes event-driven I/0, not parallel processing.


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--Bryan