[Python-Dev] PEP 371 Discussion (pyProcessing Module)

[Jesse Noller]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Farshid Lashkari <flashk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to renew the discussion now that "there is a PEP" to see
>> if there are any outstanding things people would like to get resolved.
>> I chose to continue to push it for 2.6 / 3.0 inclusion due to feedback
>> both here and elsewhere that people would rather see this in sooner in
>> some form, rather than later (i.e.: 2.7/3.1).
>
> I'm not sure if this is a big issue, but I just tested the module with
> an application that embeds Python and it doesn't work properly.
> Instead of spawning worker threads using python.exe, it attempts to
> use the application. Does the processing module allow specifying the
> exe to use for spawning worker threads? I would definitely like to see
> this included in the next release, and having support for embedded
> Python interpreters would be a big plus.
>
> -Farshid
>

Let's take this off-list Farshid - but I would like to know more about
your application (I'm not up to speed with embedding python in other
applications) so I can either add it to the PEP or discuss how best to
address this within the module itself.

-jesse