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List:       wireshark-dev
Subject:    Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 30143: /trunk/tools/
From:       Kovarththanan Rajaratnam <kovarththanan.rajaratnam () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-29 13:13:12
Message-ID: h9t151$tjr$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Hey Steve,

Stephen Fisher wrote:
> I get this error when trying to run tools/indexcap.py:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./indexcap.py", line 29, in <module>
>      import multiprocessing
> ImportError: No module named multiprocessing
> 
> It appears that multiprocessing was introduced in Python v2.6:
> 
>    http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html
> 
> My Mac OS X 10.5.8 system doesn't have that version (provided by Apple):
> 
>  >python --version
> Python 2.5.1
> 
> Is there another way to accomplish that or make it optional so we  
> don't have to upgrade Python?

The multiprocessing module has been backported to Python 2.4/2.5:

http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/

I haven't tried this myself so I can't vouch for it.

-- 
Best regards,
Kovarththanan Rajaratnam


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