From baf07395eaa77e515ddfa1d3f42785d50b4d2889 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:37:40 -0800 Subject: bpo-27873: Update docstring for multiprocessing.Pool.map (GH-17436) Update docstring for `multiprocessing.Pool.map` to mention `pool.starmap()`. Prev PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17367 @aeros https://bugs.python.org/issue27873 (cherry picked from commit eb48a451e3844185b9a8751c9badffbddc89689d) Co-authored-by: An Long --- Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index d8182fe..3c7b5cc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -2169,7 +2169,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize]) A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` built-in function (it supports only - one *iterable* argument though). It blocks until the result is ready. + one *iterable* argument though, for multiple iterables see :meth:`starmap`). + It blocks until 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 -- cgit v0.12