[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 12:33:07 CEST 2008
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Jesse Noller wrote:
Per feedback from Guido, the python-dev list and others, I have sent in an updated version of PEP 371 - the inclusion of the pyprocessing module into the standard library.
URL: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0371/ New highlights: * The module will be renamed to "multiprocessing" * The API will become PEP 8 compliant
My 2 cents on this: PEP 8 compliance in the multiprocessing API is a good idea, but threading should be updated at the same time to provide PEP 8 compliant aliases for the existing names. Using the old Java-based names should provoke a Py3k warning in 2.6 (note: to avoid a runtime performance hit when not using -3, the actual function definitions should be made conditional, rather than checking whether or not to emit the warning every time the legacy API is invoked)
The PyGILState_* bug in debug builds that RMO pointed out should also be mentioned in the PEP as something that needs to be fixed in order to implement the PEP.
Cheers, Nick.
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1683
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