[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.
Nick Craig-Wood
nick at craig-wood.com
Wed May 14 12:58:57 CEST 2008
Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for any questions, concerns or benchmarks python-dev has
> regarding the possible inclusion of the pyprocessing module to the
> standard library - preferably in the 2.6 timeline. In March, I began
> working on the PEP for the inclusion of the pyprocessing (processing)
> module into the python standard library[1]. The original email to the
> stdlib-sig can be found here, it includes a basic overview of the
> module:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/stdlib-sig/2008-March/000129.html
>
> The processing module mirrors/mimics the API of the threading module -
> and with simple import/subclassing changes depending on the code,
> allows you to leverage multi core machines via an underlying forking
> mechanism. The module also supports the sharing of data across groups
> of networked machines - a feature obviously not part of the core
> threading module, but useful in a distributed environment.
I think processing looks interesting and useful, especially since it
works on Windows as well as Un*x.
However I'd like to see a review of the security - anything which can
run across networks of machines has security implications and I didn't
see these spelt out in the documentation.
Networked running should certainly be disabled by default and need
explicitly enabling by the user - I'd hate for a new version of python
to come with a remote exploit by default...
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