processing Package for using processes mimicking the `threading` module Package for using processes which mimics the threading module, and allows the sharing of objects between processes. The ``processing.Process`` class follows the API of ``threading.Thread``. For example :: from processing import Process, Queue def f(q): q.put('hello world') if __name__ == '__main__': q = Queue() p = Process(target=f, args=[q]) p.start() print q.get() p.join() Synchronization primitives like locks, semaphores and conditions are available, for example :: >>> from processing import Condition >>> c = Condition() >>> print c <Condition(<RLock(None, 0)>), 0> >>> c.acquire() True >>> print c <Condition(<RLock(MainProcess, 1)>), 0> One can also use a manager to create shared objects either in shared memory or in a server process, for example :: >>> from processing import Manager >>> manager = Manager() >>> l = manager.list(range(10)) >>> l.reverse() >>> print l [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] >>> print repr(l) <Proxy[list] object at 0x00E1B3B0> After installation you can run the test scripts by doing either :: python -m processing.test on Python 2.5 or :: python -c "from processing.test import main; main()" on Python 2.4. This will run various test scripts using both processes and threads. See ``README.txt`` and ``doc/index.html`` in the package directory for more information. R Oudkerk 1069241a6778599d978e87fab3c071314ba2b671 0.36