Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: threading2
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: like the standard threading module, but awesomer
Home-page: http://github.com/rfk/threading2
Author: Ryan Kelly
Author-email: ryan@rfk.id.au
License: MIT
Description: 
        
          threading2:  like the standard threading module, but awesomer.
        
        This module is designed as a drop-in replacement and extension for the default
        "threading" module.  It has two main objectives:
        
            * implement primitives using native platform functionality where possible
            * expose more sophisticated functionality where it can be done uniformly
        
        The following extensions are currently implemented:
        
            * ability to set (advisory) thread priority
            * ability to set (advisory) CPU affinity at thread and process level
            * thread groups for simultaneous management of multiple threads
            * SHLock class for shared/exclusive (also known as read/write) locks
        
        The following API niceties are also included:
        
            * all blocking methods take a "timeout" argument and return a success code
            * all exposed objects are actual classes and can be safely subclassed
        
        This has currently only been tested on WinXP and Ubuntu Karmic; similar 
        platforms *should* work OK, and other platforms *should* fall back to using
        sensible default behaviour, but I'm not making any guarantees at this stage.
        
        Additional planned extensions include:
        
            * make stack_size a kwarg when creating a thread
            * native events, semaphores and timed waits on win32
            * native conditions and timed waits on pthreads platforms
        
        Stuff that might get included one day:
        
            * ReadWriteLock (using SRW on Win Vista+, pthread_rwlock on posix)
        
        
Keywords: thread threading
Platform: UNKNOWN
