> http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing
Ah, I'd forgotten about that page of the wiki; I hadn't seen it for a few months. > Do you have any opinions about those projects listed on the above page > that are similar to your own? My contribution (pprocess), along with > others (processing, pp...), can offer similar facilities, but the > styles of interfacing with spawned processes may be somewhat > different. The interface was my most important design goal, in that I wanted it to be a dead simple "Drop in some code and forget about it for a while. Retrieve the results later as if you'd called the function yourself." sort of thing. Secondly I wanted share nothing parallelism in order to avoid the nastier bits of implementing concurrent code. delegate doesn't fit the bill because it returns its results in a dictionary. pp is rather more feature-full and rather less simple as a result. processing is a clone of threading, more or less, and voids itself for not being simple and having shared objects between processes (a nifty trick to be sure). POSH uses a shared memory approach and hasn't been updated, it would seem, since 2003. pprocess isn't as simple as I wanted, though rather more simple than all the others. remoteD uses shared memory. I suppose, then, my opinion is that they're not brain-dead simple enough to fulfill my desired style of process creation. (I'm smitten with Erlang.) On Friday 01 June 2007 10:48:10 Paul Boddie wrote: > On 1 Jun, 19:34, "Brian L. Troutwine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Lately I've been tinkering around with Erlang and have begun to sorely > > want some of its features in Python, mostly the ease at which new > > processes can be forked off for computation. To that end I've coded up a > > class I call, boringly enough, Process. It takes a function, its args and > > keywords and runs the function in another process using os.fork. > > Processes can be treated as callables to retrieve the return value of the > > passed in function. > > This sounds familiar... > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing > > Do you have any opinions about those projects listed on the above page > that are similar to your own? My contribution (pprocess), along with > others (processing, pp...), can offer similar facilities, but the > styles of interfacing with spawned processes may be somewhat > different. > > Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
