Consolidated tpool and threading documentation.

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Ryan Williams
2010-01-02 08:56:42 -08:00
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modules/processes
modules/proc
modules/saranwrap
modules/tpool
modules/util
modules/wsgi

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:mod:`tpool` -- Thread pooling
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.. automodule:: eventlet.tpool
:members:

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Using Eventlet with Threads
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Threads
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Eventlet is thread-safe and can be used in conjunction with normal Python threads. The way this works is that coroutines are confined to their 'parent' Python thread. It's like each thread contains its own little world of coroutines that can switch between themselves but not between coroutines in other threads.
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The vast majority of the times you'll want to use threads are to wrap some operation that is not "green", such as a C library that uses its own OS calls to do socket operations. The :mod:`~eventlet.tpool` module is provided to make these uses simpler.
The pyevent hub is not compatible with threads.
Tpool - Simple thread pool
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The simplest thing to do with :mod:`~eventlet.tpool` is to :func:`~eventlet.tpool.execute` a function with it. The function will be run in a random thread in the pool, while the calling coroutine blocks on its completion::
>>> import thread
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running in new thread: True
My default there are 20 threads in the pool, but you can configure this by setting the environment variable ``EVENTLET_THREADPOOL_SIZE`` to the desired pool size before importing tpool.
.. automodule:: eventlet.tpool
:members: