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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition
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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition

by Steven F. Lott
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

In this chapter, we've looked at two ways to support the concurrent processing of multiple pieces of data:

  • The multiprocessing module: Specifically, the Pool class and the various kinds of mappings available to a pool of workers.
  • The concurrent.futures module: Specifically, the ProcessPoolExecutor and ThreadPoolExecutor classes. These classes also support a mapping that will distribute work among workers that are threads or processes.

We've also noted some alternatives that don't seem to fit in well with functional programming. There are numerous other features of the multiprocessing module, but they're not a good fit with functional design. Similarly, the threading and queue modules can be used to build multithreaded applications, ...

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