multiprocessing is a back port of the Python 2.6/3.0 multiprocessing <http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html>
package. The multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of
R Oudkerk's pyprocessing <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing/> 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 <http://pyprocessing.berlios.de/doc/THANKS.html>_
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.
Please report bugs related to multiprocessing at the Python bug tracker <http://bugs.python.org/>. Issues related to the packaging of
multiprocessing should be reported at <http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/>.