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  r68842 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-21 03:16:26 +0100 (Mi, 21 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Markup fixes
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  r68862 | jesse.noller | 2009-01-22 22:53:22 +0100 (Do, 22 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 4593: apply() documentation is unclear
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 936176c35dd8a0a26d6db26a2a8e1e6399381b92..6a903eec3c09db7bde91ef17ef659f59b4be34c7 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1539,7 +1539,9 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class.
    .. method:: apply(func[, args[, kwds]])
 
       Equivalent of the :func:`apply` builtin function.  It blocks till the
-      result is ready.
+      result is ready. Given this blocks - :meth:`apply_async` is better suited
+      for performing work in parallel. Additionally, the passed
+      in function is only executed in one of the workers of the pool.
 
    .. method:: apply_async(func[, args[, kwds[, callback]]])