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althonos / pronto

A Python frontend to (Open Biomedical) Ontologies.
https://pronto.readthedocs.io
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Implement optional single-threaded pronto #208

Closed jday1 closed 1 year ago

jday1 commented 1 year ago

This PR comes from me attempting to use pronto in AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda does not support the python multiprocessing module because AWS Lambda operates in a stateless environment and does not support threading.

I have modified the code to not use the multiprocessing module if the kwarg threads == 1.

This will allow pronto to operate in both a single-threaded and multi-threaded mode.

althonos commented 1 year ago

Hi @jday1, sorry for dragging this (and not responding to your mail earlier). I have implemented this using an abstract interface to allow having to check for the presence/absence of multiprocessing.pool every time I need to create a ThreadPool. The release v2.5.5 should now work on AWS Lambda, hopefully.