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Mastering Concurrency in Python

You're reading from   Mastering Concurrency in Python Create faster programs using concurrency, asynchronous, multithreading, and parallel programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343052
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Advanced Introduction to Concurrent and Parallel Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Amdahl's Law 3. Working with Threads in Python 4. Using the with Statement in Threads 5. Concurrent Web Requests 6. Working with Processes in Python 7. Reduction Operators in Processes 8. Concurrent Image Processing 9. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 10. Implementing Asynchronous Programming in Python 11. Building Communication Channels with asyncio 12. Deadlocks 13. Starvation 14. Race Conditions 15. The Global Interpreter Lock 16. Designing Lock-Based and Mutex-Free Concurrent Data Structures 17. Memory Models and Operations on Atomic Types 18. Building a Server from Scratch 19. Testing, Debugging, and Scheduling Concurrent Applications 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3

What is a thread? What are the core differences between a thread and a process?

A thread of execution is the smallest unit of programming commands. More than one thread can be implemented within a same process, usually executing concurrently and accessing/sharing the same resources, such as memory, while separate processes do not do this.

What are the API options provided by the thread module in Python?

The main feature of the thread module is its fast and efficient method of creating new threads to execute functions: the thread.start_new_thread() function. Aside from this, the module only supports a number of low-level ways of working with multithreaded primitives and sharing their global data space. Additionally, simple lock objects (for example, mutexes and semaphores) are provided for synchronization purposes.

What are the API options provided by the threading module...

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