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title = "Learning Concurrency in Python - Elliot Forbes"
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date = 2021-12-13
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "books:2021", "stars:1", "python", "concurrency"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36083578-learning-concurrency-in-python):
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Practically and deeply understand concurrency in Python to write efficient
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programs.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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A good book if you want examples of code in some concurrency topics -- and some
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that don't -- but nothing that could actually *teach* you how to use this.
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For example, there are consecutive examples of things that only change one
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option. It tells what the option says it does but doesn't example *what* it
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actually does and *when* you should use it. The whole *when* is missing from the
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book: Here is the options, here are examples for each option, have fun.
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Also, as usual for Packt books, editing would require some work. For example,
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you're following with examples using `.join()` but it is not initially explained
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why you need to do that -- only a few sections later that you find out it "waits
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for the completion of threads/processes", with no mention that the call blocks
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the current thread.
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And, on top of that, none of the examples (ok, maybe two) actually follow
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PEP8. It is a pet peeve of mine, I reckon, but when you're explaining some
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language feature, I'd expect the examples to follow the code style of the
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language (although it is not that bad 'cause at least there is a consistent
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style through the book, even if it is not PEP8).
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Suddenly, I have a feeling that the book is actually the notes of the author
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while learning something, not something that they want to help you learn...
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