Gary Herron <gary.her...@islandtraining.com>: > On 07/13/2014 04:53 PM, Paul LaFollette wrote: >> I have thrown together a little C/UNIX program that forks a child >> process, then proceeds to let the child and parent alternate. Either >> can run until it pauses itself and wakes the other. >> >> [...] > > What do you gain from using Python if you eliminate all the tools > Python provides?
The language core itself. Anyway, the subprocessing.Popen is perfect for process creation. For event multiplexing, Python3.4 has the asyncio module, although multiplexing pipes might be platform-dependent (works in linux at least). Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list