Write data to disk in Python as a background process

Question

I have a program in Python that basically does the following:

for j in xrange(200):
    # 1) Compute a bunch of data
    # 2) Write data to disk

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Answer 1

You can use something such as Queue.Queue (the module is here: Queue) and threading.Thread (or threading.start_new_thread if you just want a function), the module is here: threading - As a file write is not CPU intensive and use more IO. (and the GIL doesn't affect it).