Ulrich Berning schrieb: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > >>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... >> >> >> > As long as the ctypes extension doesn't build on major Un*x platforms > (AIX, HP-UX), I don't like to see ctypes dependend modules included into > the stdlib. Please keep the stdlib as portable as possible. > More and more people tend to say "Runs on Un*x" when they really mean > "Tested on Linux". Un*x is not Linux.
Hm, I've never looked at the processing module. Does it depend on ctypes? Anyway, the trunk version of ctypes is a lot more portable than the release25-maint version. I have once tried to build the trunk on HP-UX machines, and, IIRC, it did build on IA64 and PA machines. Of course only with GCC, not with the vendor compilers. Thomas _______________________________________________ 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