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Learning Concurrency in Python

By : Elliot Forbes
Book Image

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

ReactiveX, or RX


Reactive Extensions, or RX, first hit the scenes in around 2010 and has been heavily adopted by large tech companies such as Netflix using RxJava. It has since grown into something far bigger and more prevalent within the industry.

It comes in many different flavors for each of the different programming languages currently out there. The most popular of these are as follows:

  • RxJava for Java
  • RxJS for JavaScript
  • RxPy for Python
  • RxSwift for Swift

 

Note

The full list of Rx flavors can be found at https://github.com/ReactiveX.

Reactive Extensions for Python, or RxPY as it has been condensed to, is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators in Python. I first came across a similar version of ReactiveX when I was working with the new Angular framework, and my experience with it was great. It let me turn a web socket stream into an observable, which could subsequently be watched from within my Angular application...