Advanced Python Programming

Questions

• What is a process? What are the core differences between a process and a thread?
• What is multiprocessing? What are the core differences between multiprocessing and multithreading?
• What are the API options provided by the multiprocessing module?
• What are the core differences between the Process class and the Pool class from the multiprocessing module?
• What are the options to determine the current process in a Python program?
• What are daemon processes? What are their purposes in terms of waiting for processes in a multiprocessing program?
• How do you terminate a process? Why is it sometimes acceptable to terminate processes?
• What is one of the ways to facilitate interprocess communication in Python?