Jesse Noller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for any questions, concerns or benchmarks python-dev has > regarding the possible inclusion of the pyprocessing module to the > standard library - preferably in the 2.6 timeline. In March, I began > working on the PEP for the inclusion of the pyprocessing (processing) > module into the python standard library[1]. The original email to the > stdlib-sig can be found here, it includes a basic overview of the > module: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/stdlib-sig/2008-March/000129.html > > The processing module mirrors/mimics the API of the threading module - > and with simple import/subclassing changes depending on the code, > allows you to leverage multi core machines via an underlying forking > mechanism. The module also supports the sharing of data across groups > of networked machines - a feature obviously not part of the core > threading module, but useful in a distributed environment.
I think processing looks interesting and useful, especially since it works on Windows as well as Un*x. However I'd like to see a review of the security - anything which can run across networks of machines has security implications and I didn't see these spelt out in the documentation. Networked running should certainly be disabled by default and need explicitly enabling by the user - I'd hate for a new version of python to come with a remote exploit by default... -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
