Re: Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 05.05.2010 17:59, schrieb Benjamin Kaplan: Multiprocessing wasn't added until Python 2.6. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0371/ In Python 2.5, it was still a 3rd party package. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing The project's website appears to be down right now though. http://develop

Re: Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, James Mills wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Massi wrote: >> in my script (python 2.5 on windows xp) I need to run a simple >> function in a separate process. In other words I need something >> similar to the fork function under UNIX. I tried with threads

Re: Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread James Mills
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Massi wrote: > in my script (python 2.5 on windows xp) I need to run a simple > function in a separate process. In other words I need something > similar to the fork function under UNIX. I tried with threads: Use the new multiprocesing package. > import os, threa

Re: Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Joe Riopel wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Massi wrote: but this does not work, since the two threads share the same pid. Can anyone give me a suggestion? Have you looked at os.fork ? http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.fork Fork on Windows XP? Have a lot of fun ... The NT Kern

Re: Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread Joe Riopel
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Massi wrote: > but this does not work, since the two threads share the same pid. Can > anyone give me a suggestion? Have you looked at os.fork ? http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.fork -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Create a new process to run python function

2010-05-05 Thread Massi
Hi everyone, in my script (python 2.5 on windows xp) I need to run a simple function in a separate process. In other words I need something similar to the fork function under UNIX. I tried with threads: import os, threading def func(s) : print "I'm thread number "+s, os.getpid() threading.T