Concurrency
Concurrency and one of its manifestations, parallel processing, are among the broadest topics in the area of software engineering. Concurrency is such a huge topic that dozens of books could be written and we would still not be able to discuss all of its important aspects and models. The purpose of this chapter is to show you why concurrency may be required in your application, when to use it, and what Python's most important concurrency models are.
We will discuss some of the language features, built-in modules, and third-party packages that allow you to implement these models in your code. But we won't cover them in much detail. Treat the content of this chapter as an entry point for your own research and reading. We will try to guide you through the basic ideas and help in deciding if you really need concurrency. Hopefully, after reading this chapter you will be able to tell which approach suits your needs best.
In this chapter, we will cover the...