[Python-Dev] PEP 567 v3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:44:14 -0500
Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Offloading execution to other threads
> -------------------------------------
> 
> It is possible to run code in a separate OS thread using a copy
> of the current thread context::
> 
>     executor = ThreadPoolExecutor()
>     current_context = contextvars.copy_context()
> 
>     executor.submit(
>         lambda: current_context.run(some_function))

Does it also support offloading to a separate process (using
ProcessPoolExecutor in the example above)?  This would require the
Context to support pickling.

Regards

Antoine.