afar 0.0.1

Run code on a dask worker via a context manager

Afar

One man's magic is another man's engineering
Robert A. Heinlein

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afar explores new syntax around context managers. For example:

import afar
with afar.run() as results, locally:
    x = 1
    y = x + 1

>>> results.x
1
>>> results.y
2

Soon, we will be able to run code on a remote dask worker with syntax like:

with afar.run() as result, remotely:
    import dask_cudf
    df = dask_cudf.read_parquet("s3://...")
    result = df.sum().compute()

For motivation, see https://github.com/dask/distributed/issues/4003

This code is highly experimental and magical!