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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Molina Molina
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
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Preface
1. Containers and Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 2. Text Management 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Sharing data between processes


When working with threads or coroutines, data is shared across them by virtue of the fact that they share the same memory space. So, you can access any object from any thread, as long as attention is paid to avoiding race conditions and providing proper locking.

With processes, instead, things get far more complicated and no data is shared across them. So when using ProcessPool or ProcessPoolExecutor, we need to find a way to pass data across the processes and make them able to share a common state.

The Python standard library provides many tools to create a communication channel between processes: multiprocessing.Queues, multiprocessing.Pipe, multiprocessing.Value, and multiprocessing.Array can be used to create queues that one process can feed and the other consume, or simply values shared between multiple processes in a shared memory.

While all these are viable solutions, they have some limits: you must create all shared values before creating any process,...

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