threads and sleep?

[Peter Hansen]

Jeffrey Maitland wrote:
> I was hoping that python would allow for the cpu threading such in
> Java etc.. but I guess not. (from the answers,and other findings) I
> guess I will have to write this part of the code in something such as
> java or c or something that allows for it then I can either wrap it in
> python or avoid python for this part of the app.

Or investigate the use of Irmen's Pyro package and how it could let you 
almost transparently move your code to a *multi-process* architecture 
which would then let you take advantage of all the CPUs you have 
available (even if they _aren't_ on the same machine!).

-Peter