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[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 15 02:45:41 CEST 2008

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Charles Cazabon wrote:
> "threading" is to threads as "processing" is to processes; that's why it was
> named processing.

Unfortunately, the word "processing" is already used in the
field of computing with a very general meaning -- any kind
of data transfomation at all can be, and is, referred to as
"processing". So the intended meaning fails to come across.

-- 
Greg

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