mysqldb + multi-threading

[Bryan Olson]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Bryan> Go with your gut. Python threads are reasonably portable, and
>     Bryan> work well on modern MS-Windows.
> 
>     >> Maybe ignore your gut and read the documentation. ;-)
> 
>     Bryan> What in the documentation do you think answers the question?
> 
> The part where it says that if MySQLdb.threadsafety == 1 it's not safe to
> share connections.

You can't share them among processes either, so I don't see
any advantage either way on that.

Besides his database library, the standard Python distribution
comes with everything needed to build portable multi-threaded
socket servers, in particular, one that runs on the O.P.'s
Windows platform. The same is not true of multi-process servers.


-- 
--Bryan