[IPython-dev] drop-in replacement for multiprocessing

[Michael McKerns]

Yeah, basic hesitation in colliding with a stdlib module is the reason
I didn't do this a long time ago.  The most preferable solution would
be to have the underlying "two line patch" accepted to the stdlib that
allows a different serializer.  I'm not sure if a PEP was submitted for
that it would be accepted.  But maybe I'd get surprised.

The only benefit overriding multiprocessing gives is that all packages
that depend on multiprocessing also get accelerated serialization
propagated to them.  That's really my motivation for making the
drop-in replacement.  So multiprocessing taking an alternate
serializer would work… and it's a simple as dirt patch with
apparently no loss of functionality.



> I didn't mean to start a naming discussion, just that I don't think
> colliding with the stdlib is a good plan.
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 22 June 2015 at 10:44, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> and go with multiprocess or multiprocessing2 or some such.
>>>
>> I'd suggest something more explicit like multiprocessing_dill. It seems
>> presumptuous call a module 'thing2' without the blessing of the 'thing'
>> maintainers. They might want to use that name one day, like the Python
>> 2.7+
>> unittest package is backported as unittest2.
>>
>> 'multiprocess' sounds liable to cause confusion - if I saw that and
>> 'multiprocessing' in a tab completion list, I'd probably have to check
>> which one was which.
>>
>> Thomas
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