From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 23:37:40 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-27873: Update docstring for multiprocessing.Pool.map (GH-17436) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.1rc1~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=baf07395eaa77e515ddfa1d3f42785d50b4d2889;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-27873: Update docstring for multiprocessing.Pool.map (GH-17436) Update docstring for `multiprocessing.Pool.map` to mention `pool.starmap()`. Prev PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17367 @aeros https://bugs.python.org/issue27873 (cherry picked from commit eb48a451e3844185b9a8751c9badffbddc89689d) Co-authored-by: An Long --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index d8182feab963..3c7b5cc12620 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -2169,7 +2169,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize]) A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` built-in function (it supports only - one *iterable* argument though). It blocks until the result is ready. + one *iterable* argument though, for multiple iterables see :meth:`starmap`). + It blocks until the result is ready. This method chops the iterable into a number of chunks which it submits to the process pool as separate tasks. The (approximate) size of these