parallel processing in standard library

[Calvin Spealman]

I think we are a ways off from the point where any of the solutions
are well used, matured, and trusted to promote as a Python standard
module. I'd love to see it happen, but even worse than it never
happening is it happening too soon.

On Dec 27, 2007 8:52 AM, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper
<emin.shopper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> Is there any hope of a parallel processing toolkit being incorporated into
> the python standard library? I've seen a wide variety of toolkits each with
> various features and limitations. Unfortunately, each has its own API. For
> coarse-grained parallelism, I suspect I'd be pretty happy with many of the
> existing toolkits, but if I'm going to pick one API to learn and program to,
> I'd rather pick one that I'm confident is going to be supported for a while.
>
> So is there any hope of adoption of a parallel processing system into the
> python standard library? If not, is there any hope of something like the
> db-api for coarse grained parallelism (i.e, a common API that different
> toolkits can support)?
>
> Thanks,
> -Emin
>
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