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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:49:02 -0700
Subject: Re: portable multiprocessing code
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Eric Frederich
<eric.frederich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have written some code using Python 2.7 but I'd like these scripts
> to be able to run on Red Hat 5's 2.4.3 version of Python which doesn't
> have multiprocessing.
> I can try to import multiprocessing and set a flag as to whether it is
> available. =A0Then I can create a Queue.Queue instead of a
> multiprocessing.Queue for the arg_queue and result_queue.
> Without actually trying this yet it seems like things would work okay
> except for the Worker class. =A0It seems I can conditionally replace
> multiprocessing.Queue with Queue.Queue, but is there anything to
> replace multiprocessing.Process with?
>
> Are there any best practices for doing something like this?
> Below is a dumb example that just counts lines in files.
> What would be the best way to make this runnable in older (2.4.3)
> versions of Python?
>

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/multiprocessing

Also, you may be able to find the processing package (what
multiprocessing was called back when it was 3rd party) in your package
manager.