Multiprocessing in Python: Introduction (Part 1)

This video is sponsored by Oxylabs. Oxylabs provides market-leading web scraping solutions for large-scale public data gathering. You can receive data in JSON or CSV format and pay only per successful request. At the moment, Oxylabs offers a free trial. https://oxylabs.io/?utm_source=lucidp... In this video, we will be introducing the multiprocessing module in Python. According to the official documentation (https://docs.python.org/2/library/mul... "multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine. It runs on both Unix and Windows." Specifically, in this video, we will be writing a "square" function that takes a number and returns its respective square. We will then take a look at how to call this function in such a way that each call to the function is spawning a different process. Software from this video: https://github.com/vprusso/youtube_tu... For more videos on multiprocessing: http://bit.ly/lp_multiprocessing Do you like the development environment I'm using in this video? It's a customized version of vim that's enhanced for Python development. If you want to see how I set up my vim, I have a series on this here: http://bit.ly/lp_vim If you've found this video helpful and want to stay up-to-date with the latest videos posted on this channel, please subscribe: http://bit.ly/lp_subscribe