I had very little experience with the processing module prior to the
creation of this patch, and because pool objects are listed last in the
documentation, I did not read about them because I saw a way to achieve
what I wanted using Process. But having looked at the documentation for
Pool, I think you are correct that it would be a much cleaner solution
to the problem, as I was essentially implementing a Pool myself. I will
post a new patch to reflect this change tomorrow. I will also submit the
patch to take advantage of the fact that the multiprocessing module is
included in Python2.6, as opposed to my prior patch which was designed
for Python2.5 which required the user to get the processing module. And
in the patch, as before, multiprocess will not be default, but it will
be something the user can enable via the command line.