Carl Banks wrote: > On Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:16:37 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> > What I would expect to happen that all statements within the ooo block >> > may be executed out >> > of order. The block itself waits till all statements are returned >> > before continuing. >> >> Why do you think this needs to be a language statement? >> >> You can have that functionality *right now*, without waiting for a syntax >> update, by use of the multiprocessing module, or a third party module. >> >> http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing >> >> There's no need for forcing language changes on everyone, whether they >> need it or not, for features that can easily be implemented as library >> code. > > This goes a little beyond a simple threading mechanism, though.
The multiprocessing module is not a simple threading mechanism, and neither are the libraries listed in the ParallelProcessing page. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
