Breaking Changes

• pip install lox now installs a thread-only version of Lox with zero dependencies.
• pip install lox[multiprocessing] now installs the "full" version that uses pathos to handle multiprocessing. This is the equivalent of the previous pip install lox.

Many consumers of lox are only using the @lox.thread decorator and do not need the heavy pathos dependency. Unfortunately, due to how setuptools works, we were unable to make the dependency-less version an "extras". I.e. there's no way of doing pip install lox[slim]; "extras" can only add dependencies, they cannot remove dependencies.

Full Changelog: v0.13.0...v1.0.0

What's Changed

• remove sphinx_rtd_theme from dependencies. by @BrianPugh in #304

Full Changelog: v0.12.0...v0.13.0

What's Changed

• Add type hints to thread & process by @BrianPugh in #302

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0

• Set number of workers to 0 (in thread execution) if the environment variable LOX_DEBUG is set to a true-like value (true, 1, etc.). Makes it easier to set breakpoints in multithreaded code without having to manually edit the decorator.

• Remove dependency pinning.
• Allow @lox.thread(0). This will execute scatter calls in parent thread. Useful for debugging breakpoints in parallelized code.

Both thread and process decorators now support progress-bar support for the gather call via the package tqdm.

• Can be a bool:

my_func.gather(tqdm=True)

• Can be a tqdm object::

from tqdm import tqdm
pbar = tqdm(total=100)
for _ in range(100):
     my_func.scatter()
my_func.gather(tqdm=pbar)

• Complete rework of workers + Fix memory leaks

• Drop support for python3.5

• Drop support for chaining in favor of simpler codebase

• New Object: lox.Announcement. Allows a one-to-many thread queue with
  backlog support so that late subscribers can still get all (or most recent)
  announcements before they subscribed.

• New Feature: lox.thread scatter calls can now be chained together.
  scatter now returns an int subclass that contains metadata to allow
  chaining. Each scatter call can have a maximum of 1 previous scatter result.

• Documentation updates, theming, and logos

• Various bug fixes introduced by the Method Adapter

• Semi-breaking change: lox.thread and lox.process now automatically pass the object instance when decorating a method. This was the original intended usage.