Practice concurrent.futures: High-Level Thread and Process Pools - 4 | Chapter 7: Concurrency and Parallelism in Python | Python Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is the main purpose of the ThreadPoolExecutor?

💡 Hint: Consider what types of tasks involve waiting for resources.

Question 2

Easy

How does the ProcessPoolExecutor differ from the ThreadPoolExecutor?

💡 Hint: Think about which executor can bypass the GIL.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

Which executor would you use for I/O-bound tasks?

  • ThreadPoolExecutor
  • ProcessPoolExecutor

💡 Hint: Think about where most time is spent in I/O operations.

Question 2

True or False: ProcessPoolExecutor allows you to run CPU-bound tasks in parallel.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider the advantages of using multiple cores.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

You are developing a web scraper that needs to download images from multiple URLs efficiently. How would you implement this using ThreadPoolExecutor?

💡 Hint: Think about how the `.map` method works with multiple URLs.

Question 2

A data analysis task that involves extensive computation landmarks is running slowly in your application. How would implementing ProcessPoolExecutor help enhance performance?

💡 Hint: Consider the nature of CPU-bound tasks and the advantages of using multiple cores.

Challenge and get performance evaluation