Practice When to Use What? - 5.5 | Chapter 7: Concurrency and Parallelism in Python | Python Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What type of task is best suited for threading?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about tasks that involve waiting for input or output operations.

Question 2

Easy

What does GIL stand for?

πŸ’‘ Hint: It’s a term related to Python and concurrency.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is an advantage of using threading for I/O-bound tasks?

  • Faster execution
  • Utilizes multiple CPU cores
  • Simplifies task management

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about why concurrency is beneficial for tasks waiting for input.

Question 2

Using multiprocessing allows us to bypass which limitation of Python?

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what limits execution in Python.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

You are tasked with developing a web scraper that fetches multiple pages at once to collect data. Would you use threads or multiprocessing, and why?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Look for evidence of waiting for data rather than processing.

Question 2

You are designing a program that performs large scale matrix multiplications. What concurrency model would be appropriate, and how would you implement it?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Assess the load on the CPU during heavy computations.

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