Kill GIL

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Feb 13 21:01:11 EST 2005


In article <mailman.2502.1108343142.22381.python-list at python.org>,
Frans Englich  <frans.englich at telia.com> wrote:
>
>Personally I need a solution which touches this discussion. I need to run 
>multiple processes, which I communicate with via stdin/out, simultaneously, 
>and my plan was to do this with threads. Any favorite document pointers, 
>common traps, or something else which could be good to know?

Threads and forks tend to be problematic.  This is one case I'd recommend
against threads.
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