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| author | Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> | 2013-07-02 11:41:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> | 2013-07-02 11:41:00 (GMT) |
| commit | b0be62453f2608e5ba0718f5c49be7e4895ae590 (patch) | |
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Issue #17273: Clarify that pool methods can only be used by parent process.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 95d1b1f..1078463 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ For example:: print(result.get(timeout=1)) # prints "100" unless your computer is *very* slow print(pool.map(f, range(10))) # prints "[0, 1, 4,..., 81]" +Note that the methods of a pool should only ever be used by the +process which created it. + Reference --------- @@ -1668,6 +1671,9 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. *initializer* is not ``None`` then each worker process will call ``initializer(*initargs)`` when it starts. + Note that the methods of the pool object should only be called by + the process which created the pool. + .. versionadded:: 3.2 *maxtasksperchild* is the number of tasks a worker process can complete before it will exit and be replaced with a fresh worker process, to enable |