[Tutor] Python on multicore machines

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Nov 27 16:42:08 CET 2009


OkaMthembo, 27.11.2009 16:15:
> i've read that only one
> instance of the  Python interpreter can run on a single machine.

That's likely the source of your confusion then. You can run any number of
Python interpreters on a single machine (limited by system resources like
RAM, obviously), and in fact, many web servers will do that for you to
handle multiple requests in parallel.

Stefan



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