Sandy wrote: > > A higher-level system of concurrency, not based on monitors and > locks and great programmer discipline, will ultimately require making > "Python 3000" a reality.
It would surprise me if Python 3000 introduced anything substantially more than what Python 2.x provides in the area of concurrency. > In the meantime, is there anywhere, or any thing, that discusses the > various concurrency options related to Python? There's Stackless Python > (which I can't make head or tail of; I have been unable to find any > lucid overview, or genuine explanation of the purpose of the design.) What about this introduction...? http://members.verizon.net/olsongt/stackless/why_stackless.html > I know that there's a package for an Erlang system for Python, somewhere > ("Parnassus" probably). There's probably a Py-CSP somewhere too. Lots > of trees, but where's the Wood? Here are some fairly similar projects in Python: http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ - a way of making general concurrency easy to work with, and fun http://candygram.sourceforge.net/ - a Python implementation of Erlang concurrency primitives http://www.python.org/pypi/parallel - process forking and channel-based communication (using pickles) > Where are concurrency/distributed models compared and discussed? In the following article and comments there are some opinions expressed on Python concurrency (along with the usual dose of Ruby vapourware promotion): http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/10/does_python_have_a_concurrency.html Meanwhile, the topic has been discussed on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056801.html That discussion led to a description of something which isn't so far from parallel/pprocess, at least: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056829.html Other searching yielded this interesting paper about PyPy and "hardware transactional memory": http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1176617.1176758&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=1176617&part=Proceedings&WantType=Proceedings&title=Conference%20on%20Object%20Oriented%20Programming%20Systems%20Languages%20and%20Applications&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
