[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously (original) (raw)

Dj Gilcrease digitalxero at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 02:47:46 CET 2010


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

Did you run the provided example code on windows by chance? If so, look at the multiprocessing docs, there are restrictions on windows (see the main note) - not following the guidelines can result in lots of processes spawning.

Yes, on win7. I might recommend then that the examples in the PEP be restructured to work correctly on windows by including the

if name == 'main':



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