learning about threads and processes

[Aahz]

In article <1gpkwc1.npm4ab1rhkak1N%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> In article <1gpkcn8.1ukbssevczr9mN%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
>> Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Hmmm - have you looked at Deitel, Deitel, Liperi, Wiedermann, "Python
>>>how to program", chapters 18 (Process Management) and 19
>>>(Multithreading), pages 613-687?  They seem to do a rather workmanlike
>>>job -- of course, they can't do full justice to the subjects in 75
>>>pages; and if you don't want to buy a vast, costly 1300-pages tome for
>>>the sake of those 75 pages, I can't really blame you, either.  
>> 
>> Except that it's a really, really piss-poor book.  That's an opinion
>> which I believe you've agreed with previously.
>
>Overall, yes, it's not a book I'd heartily recommend.  But, is anything
>wrong, specifically, with chapters 18 and 19?  They seem OK to me.

Don't know, and I'm not checking.  I'm already behind on too many
things...
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