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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

Communication between processes


When it comes to synchronization between multiple sub processes, we have a number of different options that we can leverage:

  • Queues: This is your standard FIFO queue, which was covered in Chapter 5, Communication between Threads.
  • Pipes: These are a new concept, which we'll cover in more detail very shortly.
  • Manager: These provide a way for us to create data, and subsequently, share this data between different processes within our Python applications.
  • Ctypes: These are objects that utilize a shared memory which can subsequently be accessed by child processes.

The aforementioned four options represent quite a formidable number of different communication mechanisms that you can utilize within your multiprocess applications. It's definitely worth spending quite a bit of time engrossed within this topic in order to ensure you are making the correct choices when it comes to communication.

This book, unfortunately, does not have enough space to cover the near-infinite...