Threading the Python interpreter

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Feb 18 21:43:18 EST 2008


En Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:47:40 -0200, MooJoo <flossy at bobbsey_twins.com>  
escribió:

> I've read that the Python interpreter is not thread-safe but are there
> any issues in creating threads that create new processes (not threads)
> that run new instantiations of python? What I'm doing is subclassing the
> threading.Thread and, in the run method, I'm making a call to os.system,
> passing to it another python script which then processes a file. When

You don't want multiple threads, you just want concurrent processes. Use  
the subprocess module instead. You get the same results with much less  
work.

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Gabriel Genellina




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