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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

Communicating sequential processes


Communicating Sequential Processes, or CSP for short, is used to describe how systems that feature multiple concurrent models should interact with one another. It, typically, relies heavily on using channels as a medium for passing messages between two or more concurrent processes, and is the underlying mantra of languages like clojure and golang.

It's a concept that is certainly growing in popularity, and there are a number of fantastic talks and books on CSP that you should definitely check out.

Note

I'd recommend checking out Communicating Sequential Processes by C.A.R. Hoare, which was published in May of 2015, the link for which is this: http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf.

After some brief research on the topic, it's fascinating to see how certain problem sets can be abstracted out quite easily using this style of programming as opposed to your more traditional object-oriented setups.

PyCSP

PyCSP is a Python library that implements the core primitives found...