Threading and multiprocessing made easy.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://lox.readthedocs.io.

Lox provides decorators and synchronization primitives to quickly add concurrency to your projects.

pip3 install --user lox

• Multithreading: Powerful, intuitive multithreading in just 2 additional lines of code.
• Multiprocessing: Truly parallel function execution with the same interface as multithreading.
• Synchronization: Advanced thread synchronization, communication, and resource management tools.

• All objects except lox.process are for threads. These will eventually be multiprocess friendly.
• Chaining of scatter calls to multiple worker pools

>>> import lox
>>>
>>> @lox.thread(4) # Will operate with a maximum of 4 threads
... def foo(x,y):
...     return x*y
>>> foo(3,4) # normal function calls still work
12
>>> for i in range(5):
...     foo.scatter(i, i+1)
-ignore-
>>> # foo is currently being executed in 4 threads
>>> results = foo.gather() # block until results are ready
>>> print(results) # Results are in the same order as scatter() calls
[0, 2, 6, 12, 20]

>>> import lox
>>>
>>> @lox.process(4) # Will operate with a pool of 4 processes
... def foo(x,y):
...     return x*y
>>> foo(3,4) # normal function calls still work
12
>>> for i in range(5):
...     foo.scatter(i, i+1)
-ignore-
>>> # foo is currently being executed in 4 processes
>>> results = foo.gather() # block until results are ready
>>> print(results) # Results are in the same order as scatter() calls
[0, 2, 6, 12, 20]