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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 9522865..9e53aa5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1555,8 +1555,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: apply(func[, args[, kwds]]) - Equivalent of the :func:`apply` builtin function. It blocks till the - result is ready. Given this blocks - :meth:`apply_async` is better suited + Equivalent of the :func:`apply` built-in function. It blocks till the + 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. @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize]) - A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin function (it supports only + A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` built-in function (it supports only one *iterable* argument though). It blocks till the result is ready. This method chops the iterable into a number of chunks which it submits to |