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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index f3dd23e..7e828b6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1537,8 +1537,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize]) - A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin function, collecting the - result in a list. It blocks till the whole result is ready. + A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin 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 the process pool as separate tasks. The (approximate) size of these @@ -1697,6 +1697,12 @@ authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module. *address* is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object. + .. note:: + + If an address of '0.0.0.0' is used, the address will not be a connectable + end point on Windows. If you require a connectable end-point, + you should use '127.0.0.1'. + *family* is the type of socket (or named pipe) to use. This can be one of the strings ``'AF_INET'`` (for a TCP socket), ``'AF_UNIX'`` (for a Unix domain socket) or ``'AF_PIPE'`` (for a Windows named pipe). Of these only @@ -1839,7 +1845,7 @@ return value of ``current_process().authkey`` is used (see any :class:`~multiprocessing.Process` object that the current process creates. This means that (by default) all processes of a multi-process program will share a single authentication key which can be used when setting up connections -between the themselves. +between themselves. Suitable authentication keys can also be generated by using :func:`os.urandom`. |