[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Matt Joiner]

This attitude is exemplary of the status quo in Python on threads: Pretend
they don't exist or you'll get hurt.
On Feb 13, 2012 6:45 AM, "Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> [Replies have been sent to concurrency-sig at python.org]
>
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:14:51 +0100
> Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> > Den 12.02.2012 21:56, skrev Mike Meyer:
> > > While it's a throwback to the 60s, it would make using threads and
> > > processes more convenient, but I don't need it. Why don't you submit a
> > > patch?
> > I suppose the Windows implementation would do this on Linux as well? At
> > least it uses the subprocess module to spawn a new process.  Though I am
> > not sure how subprocess interacts with threads in Linux.
>
> subprocess and threads interact *really* badly on Unix
> systems. Python is missing the tools needed to deal with this
> situation properly. See http://bugs.python.org/issue6923.
>
> Just another of the minor reasons not to use threads in Python.
>
>      <mike
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