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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-01-20 11:10:13 (GMT)
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issue25982 - Add a class definition for managers.Namespace in the multiprocessing docs.
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@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ However, if you really do need to use some shared data then
proxies.
A manager returned by :func:`Manager` will support types
- :class:`list`, :class:`dict`, :class:`Namespace`, :class:`Lock`,
+ :class:`list`, :class:`dict`, :class:`~managers.Namespace`, :class:`Lock`,
:class:`RLock`, :class:`Semaphore`, :class:`BoundedSemaphore`,
:class:`Condition`, :class:`Event`, :class:`Barrier`,
:class:`Queue`, :class:`Value` and :class:`Array`. For example, ::
@@ -1747,24 +1747,26 @@ their parent process exits. The manager classes are defined in the
lproxy[0] = d
-Namespace objects
->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+.. class:: Namespace
-A namespace object has no public methods, but does have writable attributes.
-Its representation shows the values of its attributes.
+ A type that can register with :class:`SyncManager`.
-However, when using a proxy for a namespace object, an attribute beginning with
-``'_'`` will be an attribute of the proxy and not an attribute of the referent:
+ A namespace object has no public methods, but does have writable attributes.
+ Its representation shows the values of its attributes.
-.. doctest::
+ However, when using a proxy for a namespace object, an attribute beginning
+ with ``'_'`` will be an attribute of the proxy and not an attribute of the
+ referent:
+
+ .. doctest::
- >>> manager = multiprocessing.Manager()
- >>> Global = manager.Namespace()
- >>> Global.x = 10
- >>> Global.y = 'hello'
- >>> Global._z = 12.3 # this is an attribute of the proxy
- >>> print(Global)
- Namespace(x=10, y='hello')
+ >>> manager = multiprocessing.Manager()
+ >>> Global = manager.Namespace()
+ >>> Global.x = 10
+ >>> Global.y = 'hello'
+ >>> Global._z = 12.3 # this is an attribute of the proxy
+ >>> print(Global)
+ Namespace(x=10, y='hello')
Customized managers