Guido van Rossum wrote: > Maybe it should be a forked subprocess then, if it doesn't touch > anything shared?
It might be taking and returning large data structures that it would be tedious to transfer between processes. Pickling them might not be straightforward if they contain references to objects that you don't want to transfer, but you want to maintain the references. > Huh? We do that all the time. We won't let you control when memory is > deallocated. I hardly think that being able to kill threads is anywhere near as dangerous as being able to scribble all over memory. And I *can* actually do that if I really want, using ctypes. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
