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> but is that really any more helpful than just reading the code and seeing that join is called on each subprocess and connecting the dot...

> but is that really any more helpful than just reading the code and seeing that join is called on each subprocess and connecting the dots from there? It isn't if you have been programming using threads before ,"join" is obvious then But if you haven't and maybe you are a physicist trying to get something done in python, "p.join()" could mean anything -- "Join to what?", "Why is there no argument to join()?" "We are joining the data togther there like a list..." "It looks like we should be stopping the processes but the method is not called 'stop()' so that's not it"... That is the problem of teaching this stuff by someone who has been programming for a while, this kind of stuff gets internalized and becomes obvious but it is not obvious to a beginner.

Posted by rdtsc on Jul 13, 2014, 4:40 AM

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> but is that really any more helpful than just reading the code and seeing that join is called on each subprocess and connecting the dot...

rdtscJul 13, 2014, 4:40 AM

> but is that really any more helpful than just reading the code and seeing that join is called on each subprocess and connecting the dots from there? It isn't if you have been programming using threads before ,"join" is obvious then But if you haven't and maybe you are a physicist trying to get something done in python, "p.join()" could mean anything -- "Join to what?", "Why is there no argument to join()?" "We are joining the data togther there like a list..." "It looks like we should be stopping the processes but the method is not called 'stop()' so that's not it"... That is the problem of teaching this stuff by someone who has been programming for a while, this kind of stuff gets internalized and becomes obvious but it is not obvious to a beginner.

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