On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Daniel Collins <dancollin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Guido As an aside, my understanding was libraries that fall back to c > (Numpy as an example) release the GIL for load heavy operations. But I > believe the explanation would hold in the general case if you replace > thread with process using a ProcessPoolExecutor, that it would be good to > be able to submit a callback function back to the executor. > Sure, but your explanation didn't mention any of that. And yes, good catch on the last line of my example. :-) Given that the solution is only a few lines -- perhaps it's enough to just add it as an example to the docs, rather than to add it as a new function to concurrent.futures? A doc change can be added to 3.7! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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