How to install multiprocessing
- Download and install ActivePython
- Open Command Prompt
- Type
pypm install multiprocessing
Lastest release
python-multiprocessing
About
multiprocessing is a back port of the Python 2.6/3.0 multiprocessing package. The multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of R Oudkerk's pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is intended to be compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw it's fixes/improvements from python-trunk.
This package would not be possible if not for the contributions of not only the current maintainers but all of the contributors to the original pyprocessing package listed here
The multiprocessing package monkey patches several aspects of the threading module to make it forward compatible with Python 2.6. The patches are non-intrusive and don't change existing functions. See multiprocessing.patch for detailed informations.
Please refer to http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/multiprocessing.html for more information about the multiprocessing package.
Bug reporting
Please report bugs related to multiprocessing at the Python bug tracker. Issues related to the packaging of multiprocessing should be reported at http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/.
Changes
2.6.2.1 -- 2009-07-30
- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file descriptor errors
- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
_check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2.6.1.1 -- 2009-02-07
- Fixed an issue with make doc
- mp docs - fix issues 4012,3518,4193 (Python svn: r67419)
- issue4238: bsd support for cpu_count (Python svn: r67423)
- Move definition int sval into branch of ifdef where it is used.
Otherwise, you get a warning about an undefined variable. (Python svn: r67440)
- Fixed a segfault in connection_recvbytes_into() which occured
with Python debug builds on 64bit Linux.
- Added reference to `Issue 1683 http://bugs.python.org/issue1683`_.
- issue 4301: patch logging to add processName, remove the old
_check_logger_class code (Python svn: r68737)
- Resolve issue 3321: (segfault) _multiprocessing.Connection()
doesn't check handle (Python svn: r68768)
- Documentation update
2.6.0.2 -- 2008-11-27
The release is based on 2.6.0+ and contains additional fixes from Python svn.
- Issue #5: Added monkey patch to make the threading module forward
compatible with Python 2.6 and 3.0.
- Python Issue #4204: Fixed a compilation issue on FreeBSD 4.
- Removed install target from Makefile.
- Updated comments of Modules/mmapmodules.c. The modifications
and origin are clearly marked now.
- Added sphinx builder for docs and new make target docs.
- Changed version schema to Python.version.number.internal_revision
- Pulled doc fixes from Python svn: r67189, r67330, r67332
2.6.0-0.1 -- 2008-10-27
The release is based on Python 2.6.0.
- Initial release