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Is this true regarding Python's limitation?

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Sep 21 13:41:07 EDT 2000 
In article <8qdfcn$71b$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, vbMark  <vbmark at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Someone told me that the reason Java is better than Python for server-
>side CGI is because where Java uses one process and creates threads for
>each user's access, Python creates sperate processes for each user's
>CGI access.  So using Python would greatly limit and perhaps crash a
>server.
>
>Is this true?
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Urban legend.  There are a few isolated words in your description
that correspond in a barely recognizable way to truth.  Do NOT
shun Python for CGI because it "would ... perhaps crash a server"
(and certainly not in comparison with Java).

There are people, or, more precisely, situations, for which Java
is better suited than Python in server-side Web processing.  Maybe
you're in one of those situations.  However, Python does NOT have
a general disability such as you describe here.
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