Davin Potts added the comment: Detecting the number of processors available to a process is a distinct concept from reporting the number of processors present on a system. cpu_count is currently focused on the latter.
Functionality to report the number of effectively-available processors is indeed valuable information to have in certain situations but it is also something very OS-dependent (I mean the support for it is not present in all OSes, let alone the complication of how to access such information differing across OSes). I think a strong case can be made that cpu_count's current functionality should not change -- the information it provides is very important to have access to. Cool tools like psutil (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil) help cover a great range of genuine needs when making use of processor affinity. ---------- nosy: +davin _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23530> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
