On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: >> I think that [Python 2.6 was a rushed release]. 2.6 showed it in the >> inclusion (later recognizable as somewhat ill-advised so late in the >> day) of multiprocessing […]
Steve: It's just a new package - it used to be available as a 3rd-party package. I dare say it most definitely was -not- ill-advised. It happens to be a great addition to the standard library. > What was ill-advised about the addition of the 'multiprocessing' > module to Python 2.6? I ask because I haven't yet used it in anger, > and am not sure what problems have been found in it. I have found no problems with it - I've recently integrated it with my event/component framework (1). In my library I use Process, Pipe and Value. cheers James 1. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/circuits/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
