From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:22:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 68842,68862 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v2.6.5rc1~485 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e00e2058c7839fb5e42c0e3bc5106c736c4df130;p=python Merged revisions 68842,68862 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68842 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-21 03:16:26 +0100 (Mi, 21 Jan 2009) | 1 line Markup fixes ........ r68862 | jesse.noller | 2009-01-22 22:53:22 +0100 (Do, 22 Jan 2009) | 1 line Issue 4593: apply() documentation is unclear ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 936176c35d..6a903eec3c 100644 --- 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]]])