Multithreading and Multiprocessing in 10 Minutes

Multitasking made easy with Python examples

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Multithreading and multiprocessing are two ways to achieve multitasking (think distributed computing!) in Python. Multitasking is useful for running functions and code concurrently or in parallel, such as breaking down mathematical computation into multiple smaller parts, or splitting items in a for-loop if…