Lowest hassle Python web server?

[Neil Benn]

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>- Does threading cause any more of a hassle in Python than Java?
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Hello,

    From the python docs, it states that the threading design is loosely 
based upon the java module.  Certainly, coming from Java I had little 
trouble getting used to python threading.  However heres some gotchyas :

 - The thing to beware of there is something in Python called the GIL.  
Read up about that before you start threading stuff - this will explain 
to you why there is no volatile keyword - this got me confused at first.
 - There is no synchronize keyword, instead you have to use locks which 
can be obtained from the threading module
 - There are no methods such as wait on an object (there is an event 
object you can get to call wait upon - again threading)
 - The handy concurrent stuff which has been introduced in J2SE5.0 
mainly isn't in python - through you do get Queues in Python (maybe 
more, I dunno?)

    The GIL thing makes it easier to do threading with Python (there are 
disadvantages to the GIL but I won't get into that here - if you're 
interested read through the history on this group) but it's still 
threading so beware!

Cheers,

Neil

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Neil Benn
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