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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-10 18:27:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-10 18:27:21 (GMT) |
| commit | d840b8d6139ed0784d7fea1293a6b7d88a1d8a4f (patch) | |
| tree | b440a8afe089af1d2e159114299bacdbbb7ee489 /Misc | |
| parent | f2e677cec97b4e1198bde5fe65cd8a9610cd322b (diff) | |
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whatsnew: multiprocessing start methods and context (#8713 and #18999)
Also tweaked the docs a bit to use our standard style for
versionadded/changed. (I'm guessing there are other places
in the multiprocessing docs where similar tweaks should be made.)
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@@ -1636,6 +1636,9 @@ Library - Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`. +- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API + as the module, but bound to specified start methods. + - Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group() and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes object. @@ -2051,6 +2054,10 @@ Library - Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names as promised by hashlib's documentation. +- Issue #8713: add new spwan and forkserver start methods, and new functions + get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to + multiprocessing. + - Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt(). - Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters |