[Tutor] Multithreading with Python on a Windows Machine

Scot Stevenson scot@possum.in-berlin.de
Mon Feb 10 04:49:24 2003


Hello Danny, 

> I don't have a Windows system handy with me, but my memory tells me that
> Python 2.2 does have a fork() for Windows... let me check.  Hmm...  Ok,
> so the standard Python install for Windows doesn't appear to have it.

Windows per se doesn't seem to have a fork call, or at least that is what Mark 
Lutz says in "Programming Python", second edition, p. 89. However, the book, 
as excellent as it is, is getting rather old in Python terms, so that might 
have changed.

Y, Scot

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  Scot W. Stevenson -- scot@possum.in-berlin.de -- Zepernick, Germany