lox 0.5.0

Threading and Multiprocessing for every project.

Threading and multiprocessing made easy.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://lox.readthedocs.io.

Lox provides decorators and synchronization primitives to quickly add concurrency to your projects.

Installation

pip3 install –user lox

Features

• Multithreading: Powerful, intuitive multithreading in just 2 additional lines of code.

• Multiprocessing: Truly parallel function execution with the same interface as multithreading.

• Synchronization: Advanced thread synchronization, communication, and resource management tools.

Todos

• All objects except lox.process are for threads. These will eventually be multiprocess friendly.

• Chaining of scatter calls to multiple worker pools

Usage

Easy Multithreading

>>> import lox
>>>
>>> @lox.thread(4) # Will operate with a maximum of 4 threads
... def foo(x,y):
...     return x*y
>>> foo(3,4) # normal function calls still work
12
>>> for i in range(5):
...     foo.scatter(i, i+1)
-ignore-
>>> # foo is currently being executed in 4 threads
>>> results = foo.gather() # block until results are ready
>>> print(results) # Results are in the same order as scatter() calls
[0, 2, 6, 12, 20]

Easy Multiprocessing

>>> import lox
>>>
>>> @lox.process(4) # Will operate with a pool of 4 processes
... def foo(x,y):
...     return x*y
>>> foo(3,4) # normal function calls still work
12
>>> for i in range(5):
...     foo.scatter(i, i+1)
-ignore-
>>> # foo is currently being executed in 4 processes
>>> results = foo.gather() # block until results are ready
>>> print(results) # Results are in the same order as scatter() calls
[0, 2, 6, 12, 20]

History

0.5.0 (2019-07-01)

• New Object: lox.Announcement. Allows a one-to-many thread queue with backlog support so that late subscribers can still get all (or most recent) announcements before they subscribed.

• New Feature: lox.thread scatter calls can now be chained together. scatter now returns an int subclass that contains metadata to allow chaining. Each scatter call can have a maximum of 1 previous scatter result.

• Documentation updates, theming, and logos

0.4.3 (2019-06-24)

• Garbage collect cached decorated object methods

0.4.2 (2019-06-23)

• Fixed multiple instances and successive scatter and gather calls to wrapped methods

0.4.1 (2019-06-23)

• Fixed broken workers and unit tests for workers

0.4.0 (2019-06-22)

• Semi-breaking change: lox.thread and lox.process now automatically pass the object instance when decorating a method.

0.3.4 (2019-06-20)

• Print traceback in red when a thread crashes

0.3.3 (2019-06-19)

• Fix bug where thread in scatter of lox.thread double releases on empty queue

0.3.2 (2019-06-17)

• Fix manifest for installation from wheel

0.3.1 (2019-06-17)

• Fix package on pypi

0.3.0 (2019-06-01)

• Multiprocessing decorator. lox.pool renamed to lox.thread

• Substantial pytest bug fixes

• Documentation examples

• timeout for RWLock

0.2.1 (2019-05-25)

• Fix IndexSemaphore context manager

0.2.0 (2019-05-24)

• Added QLock

• Documentation syntax fixes

0.1.1 (2019-05-24)

• CICD test

0.1.0 (2019-05-24)

• First release on PyPI.