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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-27 13:22:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-27 13:22:19 (GMT) |
| commit | e00e2058c7839fb5e42c0e3bc5106c736c4df130 (patch) | |
| tree | 50de91f7074021da81dacb28d89c9078e60e9689 /Doc | |
| parent | 93a80b57528a57428fe46e7a0aece97518870fda (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 68842,68862 via svnmerge from
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r68842 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-21 03:16:26 +0100 (Mi, 21 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Markup fixes
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r68862 | jesse.noller | 2009-01-22 22:53:22 +0100 (Do, 22 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Issue 4593: apply() documentation is unclear
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 936176c..6a903ee 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1539,7 +1539,9 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: apply(func[, args[, kwds]]) Equivalent of the :func:`apply` builtin function. It blocks till the - result is ready. + result is ready. Given this blocks - :meth:`apply_async` is better suited + for performing work in parallel. Additionally, the passed + in function is only executed in one of the workers of the pool. .. method:: apply_async(func[, args[, kwds[, callback]]]) |