A pipelining framework designed for data analysis but can be useful to other applications
Project description
A parallel pipelining framework for Python. Developers can create nodes and chain them together to create pipelines.
Classes that extend Node must implement run method that will be called whenever new data is available.
A simple example
from pyPiper import Node, Pipeline
class Generate(Node):
def setup(self):
self.pos = 0
def run(self, data):
if self.pos < self.size:
self.emit(self.pos)
self.pos = self.pos + 1
else:
self.close()
class Square(Node):
def run(self, data):
self.emit(data**2)
pipeline = Pipeline(Generate("gen", size=10) | Square("square"))
print(pipeline)
pipeline.run()
Nodes can also specify a batch size that dictates how much data should be pushed to the node. For example, building on the previous example. In this case batch_size is specified in the nodes setup method. Alternatively, it can be set when creating the node (ex. Printer("print", batch_size=5))
class Printer(Node):
def setup(self):
self.batch_size = Node.BATCH_SIZE_ALL
def run(self, data):
print(data)
pipeline = Pipeline(Generate("gen", size=10) | Square("square") | Printer("print"))
print(pipeline)
pipeline.run()
Parallel Execution
To process pipelines in parallel, pass n_threads > 1 when creating the pipeline. Parallel execution is done using multiprocessing and is well suited to CPU intensive tasks such as audio processing and feature extraction. For example:
class Generate(Node):
def setup(self):
self.pos = 0
self.stateless = False
def run(self, data):
if self.pos < self.size:
self.emit(self.pos)
self.pos = self.pos + 1
else:
self.close()
pipeline = Pipeline(Generate("gen", size=10) | Square("square") | Printer("print"))
print(pipeline)
pipeline.run()
Note that since the generate Node needs to store state (pos variable), it must set self.stateless = False. This keeps the nodes state synchronized between different processes.
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