Thanks for all your hard work on the `cancel_futures` feature! As you said, there is a complexity cost (both in terms of the API and the implementation) whenever a new feature is added. The current ProcessPoolExecutor implementation, in particular, is complex enough that I can't easily easily reason about it's behavior and there are some long-standing bugs that have been difficult to resolve. I was actually hoping that we wouldn't touch the API for a while so I could do some stability work. I'm -0 on the `cancel_on_error` feature but maybe it would help to hear about a concrete use case that can't be easily accomplished using the current API? Cheers, Brian On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:36 AM Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com> wrote:
Miguel Ángel Prosper wrote:
Thank you so much for the work, I was very confused on how to even start implementing it in the ProcessPoolExecutor, but you finished everything super quick!
No problem! The ProcessPoolExecutor implementation wasn't immediately clear to me either, but after some experimentation (and some great suggestions from Brian Quinlain to improve it) I was able to get it functioning as intended. Thank you for the proposal, I think it will be a good addition for the Executor API.
Miguel Ángel Prosper wrote:
I'm suppose that this might be better in another thread but... Could it be possible to changing the context manager of the executor to cancel futures on uncaught exceptions?
Hmm, it should be possible. Do you specifically mean cancelling the pending futures once a single one of the submitted functions raises an exception, or cancelling the pending futures when the Executor itself raises an exception (I.E. BrokenProcessPool)? I would assume the prior, since that seems more useful to me.
Miguel Ángel Prosper wrote:
If not I could also be added as an optional parameter to the executor constructor, "cancel_on_error" set to False to not changing anything.
Assuming we did implement something like this, I'd say it should be done as an optional parameter for the constructor (as stated above) rather than as the default option when an exception occurs, because it would significantly different from the current behavior. At the moment, the executor doesn't mind when exceptions are raised from submitted functions; it simply sets the exception to the future (via ``future.set_exception()``) and moves on to the next.
So, cancelling the pending futures after one raises an exception would be a significant behavioral change; one that could easily result in breaking existing code. As a result, I think it should be an optional parameter if anything.
As far as whether or not it should be implemented, I'm not 100% certain. While I'm not against the idea of it, I think it would be reasonable to wait until the new parameter is released in Python 3.9 and see what users think of it prior to adding a similar parameter to the executor constructor as well. The cost of adding a new feature demanded by users is relatively minimal, but once it's added we're stuck with maintaining it.
If the idea is approved, I'd be happy to help with implementing it. I just want to make sure that we actually want it in the first place.
What do you think, Guido? I've also CC'd Brian Quinlain and Antoine Pitrou, in case they have any feedback but didn't see the original thread.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:27 AM Miguel Ángel Prosper < miguelangel.prosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you so much for the work, I was very confused on how to even start implementing it in the ProcessPoolExecutor, but you finished everything super quick!
I'm suppose that this might be better in another thread but... Could it be possible to changing the context manager of the executor to cancel futures on uncaught exceptions? If not I could also be added as an optional parameter to the executor constructor, "cancel_on_error" set to False to not changing anything. Personally I was thinking of using the executor like that; currently I have to either place everything in a try except block, handle it and then reraise it or subclass each executor. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/R5VMWP... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/