multiprocessing: Correct usage of pool & queue?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.974.1252080796.2854.python-list at python.org>,
Allen Fowler  <allen.fowler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>1) Have a maximum of 20 "in-flight" tasks.  (thus worker processes?)

Good bet.

>3) Certain tasks in my list must be processed in the correct order.  (I
>guess the asignment logic must somehow tag those to by done by the same
>worker?)

The simpler way to do this would be to bundle these tasks into a single
queue object that contains a list of tasks.  Each worker iterates over
the list of tasks that it receives, which could be a single task.
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