The Future of Python Threading

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Fri Aug 10 07:26:24 EDT 2007


On 10 Aug, 12:01, "Justin T." <jmtull... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While I don't pretend to be an authority on the subject, a few days of
> research has lead me to believe that a discussion needs to be started
> (or continued) on the state and direction of multi-threading python.
>
> Python is not multi-threading friendly.

Yes it is: Jython and IronPython support free threading; CPython,
however, does not. Meanwhile, take a look at this page for different
flavours of alternative solutions:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing

Paul




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