On Apr 12, 6:24 am, "Sean Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past, I have put together web applications that process tasks > serially, either with short algorithms to manipulate user-submitted > data or to return database queries. However, now I am faced with the > task of having a long-running process being started by a web > submission. I want to process an uploaded file. One way to do this > is to simply start a process each time someone submits a job and then > email when complete. Instead, I would like to have a way of > submitting the job to a persistent backend queue that can process the > job and answer queries about the status of the job (if it is still > running) or return results. I have looked at threadpool, which seems > fine if I a want to submit jobs from a single process (such as a Qt > application, etc), but it won't work directly for a web platform where > I will likely have multiple threads/processes handling http requests. > Any suggestions on how to go about this? > > Thanks, > Sean
I recently discovered this: http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ Might be what you need. -- Kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list