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Moving to Python 3

Moving to Python 3

Posted Feb 15, 2011 11:15 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Moving to Python 3 by cmccabe
Parent article: Moving to Python 3

Data sharing looks easy in threadland, as long as you don't look too closely. Processes make you worry about files and sockets and pipes and god-knows-what, and J. Newbie Programmer thinks that all looks like a lot more work than just having threads that can all see all the data.

(See also: "Why do I have to go through this big scary graphics library with lots of things to set up? Why can't I just stuff pixels into the graphics card?")


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