Exercises
We've covered several different concurrency paradigms in this chapter and still don't have a clear idea of when each one is useful. As we saw in the case study, it is often a good idea to prototype a few different strategies before committing to one.
Concurrency in Python 3 is a huge topic and an entire book of this size could not cover everything there is to know about it. As your first exercise, I encourage you to search the web to discover what are considered to be the latest Python concurrency best practices.
If you have used threads in a recent application, take a look at the code and see how you can make it more readable and less bug-prone by using futures. Compare thread and multiprocessing futures to see whether you can ...
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