[posted and e-mailed] In article <[email protected]>, Minesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > >Can you suggest any Python libraries for true parallelism or should I >just stick with Python Threads or asyncore
Python threads are mostly only parallel for I/O (you have to write special C code to release the GIL). If you want parallel CPU in pure Python, you should use e.g. the multiprocessing library. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-3-1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
