Another solution is: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html Note 1: This is not a limitation of the Python language, but of CPython implementation. Note 2: With regard to affinity, your OS shouldn’t have a problem doing that itself.
There is lots of information about this available. For the “official word” on the issue, read the (closed) Python bugtracker issue. The core reasoning, by one of the people who made the decision, is detailed on this blog: Since a generator is essentially a souped-up function, we would need to save its bytecode, which is … Read more
Orbited seems as a nice solution. Haven’t tried it though. Update: things have changed in the last 2.5 years. We now have websockets in all major browsers, except IE (naturally) and a couple of very good abstractions over it, that provide many methods of emulating real-time communication. socket.io along with tornadio (socket.io 0.6) and tornadio2 … Read more
In order of increasing complexity: Use the threading module Pros: It’s really easy to run any function (any callable in fact) in its own thread. Sharing data is if not easy (locks are never easy :), at least simple. Cons: As mentioned by Juergen Python threads cannot actually concurrently access state in the interpreter (there’s … Read more