* Ian Kelly (Sun, 29 Mar 2015 03:13:31 -0600) > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Thorsten Kampe > <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> wrote: > > > > I'd like to run two processes concurrently (either through a builtin > > module or a third-party). One is a "background" task and the other is > > displaying a spinner (for which I already found good packages). > > [...] > > It shouldn't be all that complicated: > > import time, multiprocessing, spinner > process1 = multiprocessing.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(60,)) > process1.start() > [...]
Thanks, I missed the example in the long documentation for multiprocessing. From Python 3.2 there is also `concurrent.futures` which does the same thing - but also allows you to use a thread. Thorsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
