Hehe, I just asked this question a few days ago but I didn't become much cleverer:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/985701 Best, Laszlo On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to do some parallel programming with Python but I don't > know how to start. There are several ways to go but I don't know what > the differences are between them: threads, multiprocessing, gevent, > etc. > > I want to use a single machine with several cores. I want to solve > problems like this: iterate over a loop (with millions of steps) and > do some work at each step. The steps are independent, so here I would > like to process several steps in parallel. I want to store the results > in a global list (which should be "synchronised"). Typical use case: > crawl webpages, extract images and collect the images in a list. > > What's the best way? > > Thanks, > > Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
