initial creation

py3interm/EXAMPLES/thr_pool.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import random
+from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool # <1>
+
+POOL_SIZE = 30 # <2>
+
+with open('../DATA/words.txt') as words_in:
+    WORDS = [w.strip() for w in words_in] # <3>
+
+random.shuffle(WORDS) # <4>
+
+def my_task(word):  # <5>
+    return word.upper()
+
+tpool = Pool(POOL_SIZE) # <6>
+
+WORD_LIST = tpool.map(my_task, WORDS) # <7>
+
+print(WORD_LIST[:20])  # <8>
+
+print("Processed {} words.".format(len(WORD_LIST)))