Unladen Swallow 2009Q2 released

Unladen Swallow 2009Q2 released

When you have 16 worker threads all consuming work from a producer thread, the amount of coding you have to do for sockets (which I use as well) is a bit cumbersome (serializing the data, select() or poll() loops, waitpid(), etc.) given the clean interface one has with Queue and Thread.

There's a list of probably appropriate solutions for you on the Python Wiki; my humble offering, pprocess, tries to hide the awkward socket management behind fairly straightforward abstractions, as (I believe) do other solutions including the 2.6/3.x standard library offering, multiprocessing.

There are also libraries like Kamaelia which take a more radical approach to doing concurrent programming, and these certainly shouldn't require you to manage the tedious details.