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Concurrent Execution

multiprocessing.pool

One can create a pool of processes which will carry out tasks submitted to it with the Pool class.
Symbols in multiprocessing.pool

a

AsyncResult
The class of the result returned by Pool.apply_async() and Pool.map_async().

p

Pool
Class which supports an async version of applying functions to arguments.

t

ThreadPool
A thread pool object which controls a pool of worker threads to which jobs can be submitted.