App Engine cannot spawn threads or start processes. It also has zero built-in support for background processing, though Google is going to implement something in the future.
There are a few workarounds, search this group for "background". Cheers, Alex -- www.muspy.com On Dec 28, 2:22 am, agartland <agartl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you think Google App Engine is suitable for an idea I have about a > program that will crawl around on the web and gather data for me for a > project? > > The examples that I have found all seem to involve apps in which the > program is responding to the user. I would like to use a google app as > a sort of daemon that I can query every once in a while to see what > kind of new data it has found. The crawling algorithm is not really > memory or processor intensive, but I would like it to run all the time > which is why Google App is nice since I don't have my own dedicated > server. > > Does anyone know if I can spawn threads? How often will my program be > stopped and restarted? > > Thanks for the advice! > > -Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
