[Kovarththanan Rajaratnam <kovarththanan.rajaratnam@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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Best regards,
Kovarththanan Rajaratnam