Python with Apache 2.0

[Robert Brewer]

Chang LI wrote:
> Does python support threads safely along with Apache 2.0 in 
> web applications.

The only problem I found using Apache2 (on Windows 2k) was that Apache
uses a thread pool, so if you add attributes to a thread, they won't be
freed when the request ends. For example,
"threading.currentThread().data = 5"; you might encounter that same
thread again later, and it will already have .data == 5 at the beginning
of your request handler. As long as you're not adding attributes to
thread objects, or using a mapping of thread id's, you should be OK.


Robert Brewer
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