Question

I have an upload page in django powered site. The end-users upload the documents from that page. The back end processing of that uploaded document can take several minutes. How do i handle multiple end-users’ request in the back end? I have thought of using thread for each end-user’s request. However, i am finding it difficult in coding that how do i create a new thread as soon as some user uploads a document. A sample example or demo would be highly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance!!!

Answer 1

Without more information its hard to say what exactly, but threads sound like a reasonable idea. To create a thread in python, you do the following:

from threading import Thread
class Worker(Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        Thread.__init__(self) #Runs the thread's constructor

    #Method that is run when the new thread starts
    def run(self):
        #Whatever data processing you have to do can go here
        while True:
            print "Hello from Worker"

w = Worker()
w.start() #Starts a new thread which executes the object's run function