The multiprocessing module was added to Python in version 2.6. It was originally defined in PEP 371 by Jesse Noller and Richard Oudkerk. The multiprocessing module allows you to spawn processes in much that same manner than you can spawn threads with the threading module. The idea here is that because you are now spawning […]
This week we welcome Cory Benfield (@lukasaoz) as our PyDev of the Week! Cory is a core developer of the Python language, specifically on urllib3 as well as a core developer of the requests package. He is also the lead maintainer of the Hyper Project which is a set of related projects that provide HTTP/2 […]
The threading module was first introduced in Python 1.5.2 as an enhancement of the low-level thread module. The threading module makes working with threads much easier and allows the program to run multiple operations at once. Note that the threads in Python work best with I/O operations, such as downloading resources from the Internet or […]
The Bokeh package is an interactive visualization library that uses web browsers for its presentation. Its goal is to provide graphics in the vein of D3.js that look elegant and are easy to construct. Bokeh supports large and streaming datasets. You will probably be using this library for creating plots / graphs. One of its […]
The asyncio module was added to Python in version 3.4 as a provisional package. What that means is that it is possible that asyncio receives backwards incompatible changes or could even be removed in a future release of Python. According to the documentation asyncio "provides infrastructure for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, multiplexing I/O […]
This week we welcome Nicholas Tollervey (@ntoll) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of the Python in Education booklet and the co-author of Learning jQuery Deferreds: Taming Callback Hell with Deferreds and Promises. He was one of the co-founders of the London Python Code Dojo. You should check out his website […]
