[Tutor] What is the difference between the now depreciated threading module and the multiprocessing module

[Prasad, Ramit]

>I was wondering if anyone could tell me why threading was depreciated; and give me a use case for the >multiprocessing : Queue function in python 2.7.

Threading was *not* deprecated Python 2.x or 3.x 
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/threading.html?highlight=threading#threading 
http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html 

Threading is for single process programs that want to emulate being multi-process while multiprocessing actually creates different processes.  The multiprocessing module docs say:
"[sic]multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. "

You can read about the multiprocessing module here: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html# 

Ramit


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