Commit 04f48511 authored by Alex Willmer's avatar Alex Willmer Committed by David Wilson

docs: multiprocessing comparison

Not strictly a rival, but has enough commonalities to be worth noting
parent 8c227b2b
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.. _invoke: http://www.pyinvoke.org/
Multiprocessing
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multiprocessing_ was added to the stdlib in Python 2.6.
multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an
API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers
both local and remote concurrency
There is a backport_ for Python 2.4 & 2.5, but it is not pure Python.
pymultiprocessing_ appears to be a pure Python implementation.
An ecosystem_ of packages has built up around multiprocessing.
The `programming guidelines`_ section notes
- Arguments to proxies must be picklable. On Windows this also applies to
``multiprocessing.Process.__init__()`` arguments.
- Callers should beware replacing ``sys.stdin``, because
``multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap()``
will close it and open /dev/null instead
.. _programming guidelines: https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#programming-guidelines
.. _backport: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/multiprocessing
.. _pymultiprocessing: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymultiprocessing
.. _ecosystem: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=multiprocessing&submit=search
Paver
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