Python 3 Concurrency – The concurrent.futures Module

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The concurrent.futures module was added in Python 3.2. According to the Python documentation it provides the developer with a high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables. Basically concurrent.futures is an abstraction layer on top of Python’s threading and multiprocessing modules that simplifies using them. However it should be noted that while the abstraction layer simplifies the […]

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Python 201: A multiprocessing tutorial

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The multiprocessing module was added to Python in version 2.6. It was originally defined in PEP 371 by Jesse Noller and Richard Oudkerk. The multiprocessing module allows you to spawn processes in much that same manner than you can spawn threads with the threading module. The idea here is that because you are now spawning

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Python 201: A Tutorial on Threads

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The threading module was first introduced in Python 1.5.2 as an enhancement of the low-level thread module. The threading module makes working with threads much easier and allows the program to run multiple operations at once. Note that the threads in Python work best with I/O operations, such as downloading resources from the Internet or

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Python 3 – An Intro to asyncio

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The asyncio module was added to Python in version 3.4 as a provisional package. What that means is that it is possible that asyncio receives backwards incompatible changes or could even be removed in a future release of Python. According to the documentation asyncio “provides infrastructure for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, multiplexing I/O

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Yet Another Python datetime Replacement: Pendulum

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I stumbled across another new library that purports that it is better than Python’s datetime module. It is called Pendulum. Pendulum is heavily influenced by Carbon for PHP according to its documentation. These libraries are always interesting, although I am not sure what makes this one better than Arrow or Delorean. There were some comments

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Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest

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The unittest module is actually a testing framework that was originally inspired by JUnit. It currently supports test automation, the sharing of setup and shutdown code, aggregating tests into collections and the independence of tests from the reporting framework. The unittest frameworks supports the following concepts: Test Fixture – A fixture is what is used

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