asyncio doc: add "Concurrency and multithreading" section

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Victor Stinner 2014-02-01 03:18:58 +01:00
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@ -7,6 +7,32 @@ Asynchronous programming is different than classical "sequential" programming.
This page lists common traps and explains how to avoid them.
.. _asyncio-multithreading:
Concurrency and multithreading
------------------------------
An event loop runs in a thread and executes all callbacks and tasks in the same
thread. If a callback should be scheduled from a different thread, the
:meth:`BaseEventLoop.call_soon_threadsafe` method should be used.
While a task in running in the event loop, no other task is running in the same
thread. But when the task uses ``yield from``, the task is suspended and the
event loop executes the next task.
To handle signals and to execute subprocesses, the event loop must be run in
the main thread.
The :meth:`BaseEventLoop.run_in_executor` method can be used with a thread pool
executor to execute a callback in different thread to not block the thread of
the event loop.
.. seealso::
See the :ref:`Synchronization primitives <asyncio-sync>` section to
synchronize tasks.
.. _asyncio-handle-blocking:
Handle correctly blocking functions
@ -21,7 +47,7 @@ APIs like :ref:`protocols <protocol>`.
An executor can be used to run a task in a different thread or even in a
different process, to not block the thread of the event loop. See the
:func:`BaseEventLoop.run_in_executor` function.
:meth:`BaseEventLoop.run_in_executor` method.
.. seealso::
@ -213,5 +239,3 @@ Or without ``asyncio.async()``::
yield from asyncio.sleep(2.0)
loop.stop()
.. XXX: Document "poll xxx" log message?

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.. currentmodule:: asyncio
.. _sync:
.. _asyncio-sync:
Synchronization primitives
==========================