Re: Multiprocessing question

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From	Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject	Re: Multiprocessing question
Date	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:07:49 +0300
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Gary Herron <gary.herron@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

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Re: Multiprocessing question Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2014-07-13 17:07 -0700
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