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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Generators, Coroutines, and Parallel Processing

In this chapter, we will take a look at generators, coroutines, and parallel processing. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • How iteration works in Python
  • Using the itertools module
  • Using generator functions
  • Simulating multithreading with coroutines
  • When to use parallel processing
  • Forking processes
  • How to implement multithreading
  • How to implement multiprocessing

Although the various topics that will be covered in this chapter may seem to have little to do with each other, they do have an effect on one another. First, iteration is the process of walking through a sequence; Python provides several ways to iterate over objects. Generators are functions that generate values in a ...

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