February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Using multiple processes
The standard multiprocessing module can be used to quickly parallelize simple tasks by spawning several processes, while avoiding the GIL problem. Its interface is easy to use and includes several utilities to handle task submission and synchronization.