Eric Brunel wrote: > > Basically, I have the situation where a user (via the web) requests data > > from a database that has to be written to file. However, this takes a couple > > of minutes. So the way I thought of doing this is: > > 1. create an empty file. > > 2a. tell the user where to look for the file. > > 2b. spawn a process to insert data into the file. > > > > This way the user can see the data as its being written. > > You may want to use threads for this instead of processes. See > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html
I haven't seen any reason he wants to give up protected memory, so the only reason to use threads is if the platform doesn't support fork (or has a broken/nonperformant implementation thereof). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
