Philip Semanchuk wrote: > The general rule is that it is a lot easier to share data between > threads than between processes. The multiprocessing library makes the > latter easier but is only part of the standard library in Python >= 2.6. > The design of your application matters a lot. For instance, will the > processing code write its results to a database, ping the GUI code and > then exit, allowing the GUI to read the database? That sounds like an > excellent setup for processes.
A backport for Python 2.4 and 2.5 is available on pypi. Python 2.5.4 is recommended though. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
