On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Eric Frederich <eric.freder...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have written some code using Python 2.7 but I'd like these scripts > to be able to run on Red Hat 5's 2.4.3 version of Python which doesn't > have multiprocessing. > I can try to import multiprocessing and set a flag as to whether it is > available. Then I can create a Queue.Queue instead of a > multiprocessing.Queue for the arg_queue and result_queue. > Without actually trying this yet it seems like things would work okay > except for the Worker class. It seems I can conditionally replace > multiprocessing.Queue with Queue.Queue, but is there anything to > replace multiprocessing.Process with?
Yes, threading.Thread. Pro: Since the multiprocessing module is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the threading module, it should also be pretty straight-forward to go in the reverse direction. Con: You won't have true concurrency because of the GIL. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
