On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 01:39 -0800, Vishal wrote: > Is it possible that the Python process, creates copies of the > interpreter for each thread that is launched, and some how the thread > is bound to its own interpreter ? > and it "may" also allow the two threads to run in parallel, assuming > the processors of today can send independent instructions from the > same process to multiple cores? > Comments, suggestions, brush offs are welcome :))
Yes, it is possible, and done. See the multiprocessing module. It works very well. <http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html> It isn't exactly the same as threads, but provides many similar constructs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
