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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

Gevent


The gevent networking library is based purely on top of coroutines. It's very similar in nature when compared to Twisted and provides us with a similar range of functionality that we can leverage to build our own network-based event-driven Python applications.

Its features include the following:

  • A fast event loop
  • Lightweight execution units based on greenlets
  • An API that reuses concepts from the Python standard library
  • Cooperative sockets and SSL modules
  • TCP/UDP/HTTP servers
  • Thread pools
  • Sub-process support

It also includes a number of other features. It features a healthy collection of internal methods and classes that enable us, as developers, to develop some pretty powerful and flexible systems. If you are interested in reading up on everything that it provides, then I suggest you check out the official documentation, which can be found at http://www.gevent.org/contents.html.

Event loops

Much like the asyncio module, gevent utilizes the concept of an event loop. This event loop is incredibly...