learning about threads and processes (was Re: what would you like to see in a 2nd edition Nutshell?)

[Aahz]

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.

>And what about Norman Matloff's
><http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyThreads.pdf>, the first
>google hit if you're looking for
>    python threads
>?  I haven't looked into it, but, again, without some specific
>explanation of how it fails to meet your needs, it's hard to offer
>alternatives.

That's actually pretty good.
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