cpython/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py

#
# Package analogous to 'threading.py' but using processes
#
# multiprocessing/__init__.py
#
# This package is intended to duplicate the functionality (and much of
# the API) of threading.py but uses processes instead of threads.  A
# subpackage 'multiprocessing.dummy' has the same API but is a simple
# wrapper for 'threading'.
#
# Try calling `multiprocessing.doc.main()` to read the html
# documentation in in a webbrowser.
#
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk
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#
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__version__ = '0.70a1'

__all__ = [
    'Process', 'current_process', 'active_children', 'freeze_support',
    'Manager', 'Pipe', 'cpu_count', 'log_to_stderr', 'get_logger',
    'allow_connection_pickling', 'BufferTooShort', 'TimeoutError',
    'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'Condition',
    'Event', 'Queue', 'JoinableQueue', 'Pool', 'Value', 'Array',
    'RawValue', 'RawArray'
    ]

__author__ = 'R. Oudkerk (r.m.oudkerk@gmail.com)'

#
# Imports
#

import os
import sys

from multiprocessing.process import Process, current_process, active_children

#
# Exceptions
#

class ProcessError(Exception):
    pass

class BufferTooShort(ProcessError):
    pass

class TimeoutError(ProcessError):
    pass

class AuthenticationError(ProcessError):
    pass

# This is down here because _multiprocessing uses BufferTooShort
import _multiprocessing

#
# Definitions not depending on native semaphores
#

def Manager():
    '''
    Returns a manager associated with a running server process

    The managers methods such as `Lock()`, `Condition()` and `Queue()`
    can be used to create shared objects.
    '''
    from multiprocessing.managers import SyncManager
    m = SyncManager()
    m.start()
    return m

def cpu_count():
    '''
    Returns the number of CPUs in the system
    '''
    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        try:
            num = int(os.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS'])
        except (ValueError, KeyError):
            num = 0
    elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
        try:
            num = int(os.popen('sysctl -n hw.ncpu').read())
        except ValueError:
            num = 0
    else:
        try:
            num = os.sysconf('SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN')
        except (ValueError, OSError, AttributeError):
            num = 0

    if num >= 1:
        return num
    else:
        raise NotImplementedError('cannot determine number of cpus')

def freeze_support():
    '''
    Check whether this is a fake forked process in a frozen executable.
    If so then run code specified by commandline and exit.
    '''
    if sys.platform == 'win32' and getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
        from multiprocessing.forking import freeze_support
        freeze_support()

def allow_connection_pickling():
    '''
    Install support for sending connections and sockets between processes
    '''
    from multiprocessing import reduction

# Alias some names from submodules in the package namespace
from multiprocessing.connection import Pipe
from multiprocessing.util import (get_logger, log_to_stderr)

#
# Definitions depending on native semaphores
#
# Alias some names from submodules in the package namespace
from multiprocessing.synchronize import (Lock, RLock, Condition, Event,
                                         Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore)
from multiprocessing.queues import (Queue, JoinableQueue)
from multiprocessing.pool import Pool
from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import (RawValue, Value,
                                          RawArray, Array)

if sys.platform == 'win32':
    from multiprocessing.forking import set_executable

    __all__ += ['set_executable']