[issue12708] multiprocessing.Pool is missing a starmap[_async]() method.

[Hynek Schlawack]

New submission from Hynek Schlawack <hs at ox.cx>:

After I've seen a co-worker to unpack tuples while using multiprocessing.Pool.map(), I realized that the module is missing a starmap() method like itertools has.

I took it as a opportunity to contribute some code and implemented both starmap() and starmap_async().

The patch including tests is attached, please let me know, what you think. Please don't call me names, it's my first patch for such a high profile project like Python. ;)

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components: Library (Lib)
files: mp-starmap.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 141761
nosy: hynek, jnoller
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: multiprocessing.Pool is missing a starmap[_async]() method.
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22859/mp-starmap.diff

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