pprocess

README.txt

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     1 Introduction
     2 ------------
     3 
     4 The parallel module provides elementary support for parallel programming in
     5 Python using a fork-based process creation model in conjunction with a
     6 channel-based communications model implemented using socketpair and poll.
     7 
     8 Quick Start
     9 -----------
    10 
    11 Try running some of the tests:
    12 
    13 PYTHONPATH=. python tests/create_loop.py
    14 PYTHONPATH=. python tests/start_loop.py
    15 
    16 (Simple loop demonstrations which use two different ways of creating and
    17 starting the parallel processes.)
    18 
    19 PYTHONPATH=. python tests/start_indexer.py <n> <directory>
    20 
    21 (A text indexing demonstration, where <n> should be replaced by the number of
    22 created/child/worker processes which will attempt to tokenize text files, and
    23 where <directory> should be a directory containing text files to be indexed,
    24 although HTML files will also work well enough. After indexing the files, a
    25 prompt will appear, words or word fragments can be entered, and matching words
    26 and their locations will be shown.)
    27 
    28 Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
    29 ------------------------------------------
    30 
    31 No Web page has yet been made available for this work, but the author can be
    32 contacted at the following e-mail address:
    33 
    34 paul@boddie.org.uk
    35 
    36 Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
    37 docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information.
    38 
    39 Dependencies
    40 ------------
    41 
    42 This software depends on standard library features which are stated as being
    43 available only on "UNIX"; it has only been tested on a GNU/Linux system.
    44 
    45 Release Procedures
    46 ------------------
    47 
    48 Update the parallel __version__ attribute.
    49 Change the version number and package filename/directory in the documentation.
    50 Update the release notes (see above).
    51 Check the release information in the PKG-INFO file.
    52 Tag, export.
    53 Archive, upload.
    54 Update PyPI, PythonInfo Wiki, Vaults of Parnassus entries.