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Learning Concurrency in Python

By : Elliot Forbes
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Learning Concurrency in Python

By: Elliot Forbes

Overview of this book

Python is a very high level, general purpose language that is utilized heavily in fields such as data science and research, as well as being one of the top choices for general purpose programming for programmers around the world. It features a wide number of powerful, high and low-level libraries and frameworks that complement its delightful syntax and enable Python programmers to create. This book introduces some of the most popular libraries and frameworks and goes in-depth into how you can leverage these libraries for your own high-concurrent, highly-performant Python programs. We'll cover the fundamental concepts of concurrency needed to be able to write your own concurrent and parallel software systems in Python. The book will guide you down the path to mastering Python concurrency, giving you all the necessary hardware and theoretical knowledge. We'll cover concepts such as debugging and exception handling as well as some of the most popular libraries and frameworks that allow you to create event-driven and reactive systems. By the end of the book, you'll have learned the techniques to write incredibly efficient concurrent systems that follow best practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at quite a number of different mechanisms that we can employ when it comes to implementing communication in our multithreaded systems. We took a deep dive into the thread-safe queue primitives that Python features natively, and how we can implement solutions around these primitives that we can be confident with.

In the last section, we pulled all of the concepts that we covered in the previous two chapters together, and created a useful tool for checking the health of all the links on a given website.

In the next chapter, we'll look in depth at the various debugging and benchmarking techniques that one can use in order to ensure that their systems are production ready and bug free.