starmap/starmap_async for whatsnew, and fix multiprocessing Pool markup.

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R David Murray 2012-10-06 22:26:52 -04:00
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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Windows.
Functionality within this package requires that the ``__main__`` module be
importable by the children. This is covered in :ref:`multiprocessing-programming`
however it is worth pointing out here. This means that some examples, such
as the :class:`multiprocessing.Pool` examples will not work in the
as the :class:`multiprocessing.pool.Pool` examples will not work in the
interactive interpreter. For example::
>>> from multiprocessing import Pool
@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ Process Pools
One can create a pool of processes which will carry out tasks submitted to it
with the :class:`Pool` class.
.. class:: multiprocessing.Pool([processes[, initializer[, initargs[, maxtasksperchild]]]])
.. class:: Pool([processes[, initializer[, initargs[, maxtasksperchild]]]])
A process pool object which controls a pool of worker processes to which jobs
can be submitted. It supports asynchronous results with timeouts and

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@ -1537,6 +1537,13 @@ program to wait on multiple :class:`~multiprocessing.Process` objects at one
time using the appropriate OS primitives (for example, :mod:`select` on
posix systems).
New methods :meth:`multiprocessing.pool.Pool.starmap` and
:meth:`~multiprocessing.pool.Pool.starmap_async` provide
:func:`itertools.starmap` equivalents to the existing
:meth:`multiprocessing.pool.Pool.map` and
:meth:`~multiprocessing.pool.Pool.map_async` functions. (Contributed by Hynek
Schlawack in :issue:`12708`.)
nntplib
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