From 9d977b81a167ffe0a4f522ad436891cb964e0621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:42:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] #5642: clarify map() compatibility to the builtin. --- Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 8abf146d79..8a995235c4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1549,8 +1549,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class. .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize]) - A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin function. It blocks till - the result is ready. + A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin function (it supports only + one *iterable* argument though). It blocks till the result is ready. This method chops the iterable into a number of chunks which it submits to the process pool as separate tasks. The (approximate) size of these -- 2.50.1