On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 10:31 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> No hard compared to what?
Compared to sequential programming.
[...]
> My argument is that once you move beyond the one-operation-after-another
> programming model, almost any parallel processing problem is harder than the
> equiv
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Using processes and message passing, using dataflow, actors or CSP,
>> parallelism and concurrency is far more straightforward. Not easy,
>> agreed, but then programming isn't easy.
>
> My argument is that once you move beyond the one-oper
Russel Winder wrote:
Steven,
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 10:22 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
carlo locci wrote:
Hello All,
I've started to study python a couple of month ago(and I truly love it :)),
however I'm having some problems understanding how to modify a sequential
script and make it multithr
Steven,
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 10:22 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> carlo locci wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I've started to study python a couple of month ago(and I truly love it :)),
> > however I'm having some problems understanding how to modify a sequential
> > script and make it multithreaded (
bob gailer wrote:
On 5/12/2012 8:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
By the way, in future, please don't decorate your code with stars:
I think you got stars because the code was posted in HTML and bolded.
Plain text readers add the * to show emphasis.
I think you have it the other way around: if y
def read():
couple of observations
1 - it is customary to put all import statements at the beginning of the
file.
2 - it is customary to begin variable and function names with a lower
case letter.
3 - it is better to avoid using built-in function names common method
names (e.g. read).
def rea
On 5/12/2012 8:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
By the way, in future, please don't decorate your code with stars:
I think you got stars because the code was posted in HTML and bolded.
Plain text readers add the * to show emphasis.
When i copied and pasted the code it came out fine.
carlo: in fu
carlo locci wrote:
Hello All,
I've started to study python a couple of month ago(and I truly love it :)),
however I'm having some problems understanding how to modify a sequential
script and make it multithreaded (I think it's because I'm not used to
think in that way),
No, that's because mult
Hello All,
I've started to study python a couple of month ago(and I truly love it :)),
however I'm having some problems understanding how to modify a sequential
script and make it multithreaded (I think it's because I'm not used to
think in that way), as well as when it's best to use it(some say th
