[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Jesse Noller added the comment: I've removed the example on all active branches. r76433 is the changelist -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Jesse Noller added the comment: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ask Solem wrote: > > Ask Solem added the comment: > > Are we sure this fits the scope of multiprocessing? It's a nice feature, > but such a long and complex example in the documentation is wrong IMHO, if > this is something peopl

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Ask Solem added the comment: Are we sure this fits the scope of multiprocessing? It's a nice feature, but such a long and complex example in the documentation is wrong IMHO, if this is something people need it should be implemented as a reusable solution, not as an example people copy and pas

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Justin MacCallum added the comment: I think this should either be fixed or removed from the documentation. It is very confusing as is. I have next to no idea what I'm doing, but I've attached a patch that allows this code to function, at least sort of. You can now create cluster and pool obje

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Garrett Cooper added the comment: Priorities shifted again at work, so I'll get around to this some time around early June when I get an opportunity to implement multiprocessing in my work code... Thanks! -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven added the comment: Garrett, I use FreeBSD myself too, so feel free to bounce anything my way. -- nosy: +asmodai ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Garrett Cooper added the comment: How about this? I'll do both :). I'm avoiding sync + semaphore stuff because it's still non-portable (Issue 3770 fun), even though I have a functioning copy of FreeBSD... but I do have a Mac, VMware fusion, etc, and I'll toss in a working example with Fedora 10

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Jesse Noller added the comment: Ugh, I thought that was cleaned up. Don't bother with FreeBSD, or any other BSDes. If you're willing to do it, just make it work on linux. MP support on BSD is severely broken right now. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

Changes by Benjamin Peterson : -- assignee: georg.brandl -> jnoller nosy: +jnoller ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue5738] multiprocessing example wrong

New submission from Garrett Cooper : The last example on the multiprocessing documentation page is clearly wrong. It references a lot of renamed / deprecated API's from processing that are no longer in multiprocessing. I'll try and come up with a comparable working example on all platforms (I us