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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>If you happen to be using python 2.6, multiprocessing is your friend.<BR>
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<a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html">http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html</a><BR>
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It is very easy to use and because it runs in a separate process, there is no global interpreter lock. Way, way, way better than threading for a lot of cases. If it crashes, the main program doesn’t go down.<BR>
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Brian<BR>
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On 1/27/09 2:01 PM, "Matt Smith" <<a href="melkor@orangepalantir.org">melkor@orangepalantir.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>In java they have the "SwingWorker" class and I thought of a way to<BR>
implement something similar in python. Here is the code:<BR>
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<a href="http://paste.pocoo.org/show/101578/">http://paste.pocoo.org/show/101578/</a><BR>
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I use this for starting long running processes. Here is an example of<BR>
how I have used it.<BR>
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<a href="http://orangepalantir.org/files/threadworker.py">http://orangepalantir.org/files/threadworker.py</a><BR>
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I was curious for some input, It seems threads are often abused and I<BR>
don't want to be doing too much abusing.<BR>
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mbs<BR>
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