> David Ascher writes: > >While we're at it, it'd be nice if we could provide a better answer when > >someone asks (as "they" often do) "how do I program with threads in > >Python" than our usual "the way you'd do it in C". Threading tutorials > >are very hard to come by, I've found (I got the ORA multi-threaded Andrew Kuchling chimes in: > Agreed; I'd love to see a HOWTO on thread programming. I really > liked Andrew Birrell's introduction to threads for Modula-3; see > http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-035.html > (Postscript and PDF versions available.) Translating its approach to > Python would be an excellent starting point. Another idea is for someone to finish the thread tutorial that I started early 1998 (and never finished because I realized that it needed the threading module and some thread-safety patches to urllib for the examples I had in mind to work). It's actually on the website (but unlinked-to): http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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