Python之路,进程、线程、协程篇

进程与线程

什么是线程(thread)？

线程是操作系统能够进行运算调度的最小单位。它被包含在进程之中，是进程中的实际运作单位。一条线程指的是进程中一个单一顺序的控制流，一个进程中可以并发多个线程，每条线程并行执行不同的任务

A thread is an execution context, which is all the information a CPU needs to execute a stream of instructions.

Suppose you're reading a book, and you want to take a break right now, but you want to be able to come back and resume reading from the exact point where you stopped. One way to achieve that is by jotting down the page number, line number, and word number. So your execution context for reading a book is these 3 numbers.

If you have a roommate, and she's using the same technique, she can take the book while you're not using it, and resume reading from where she stopped. Then you can take it back, and resume it from where you were.

Threads work in the same way. A CPU is giving you the illusion that it's doing multiple computations at the same time. It does that by spending a bit of time on each computation. It can do that because it has an execution context for each computation. Just like you can share a book with your friend, many tasks can share a CPU.

On a more technical level, an execution context (therefore a thread) consists of the values of the CPU's registers.

Last: threads are different from processes. A thread is a context of execution, while a process is a bunch of resources associated with a computation. A process can have one or many threads.

Clarification: the resources associated with a process include memory pages (all the threads in a process have the same view of the memory), file descriptors (e.g., open sockets), and security credentials (e.g., the ID of the user who started the process).

什么是进程(process)？

An executing instance of a program is called a process.

Each process provides the resources needed to execute a program. A process has a virtual address space, executable code, open handles to system objects, a security context, a unique process identifier, environment variables, a priority class, minimum and maximum working set sizes, and at least one thread of execution. Each process is started with a single thread, often called the primary thread, but can create additional threads from any of its threads.

进程与线程的区别？

1. Threads share the address space of the process that created it; processes have their own address space.
2. Threads have direct access to the data segment of its process; processes have their own copy of the data segment of the parent process.
3. Threads can directly communicate with other threads of its process; processes must use interprocess communication to communicate with sibling processes.
4. New threads are easily created; new processes require duplication of the parent process.
5. Threads can exercise considerable control over threads of the same process; processes can only exercise control over child processes.
6. Changes to the main thread (cancellation, priority change, etc.) may affect the behavior of the other threads of the process; changes to the parent process does not affect child processes.

Python GIL(Global Interpreter Lock)　　

In CPython, the global interpreter lock, or GIL, is a mutex that prevents multiple native threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. This lock is necessary mainly because CPython’s memory management is not thread-safe. (However, since the GIL exists, other features have grown to depend on the guarantees that it enforces.)

上面的核心意思就是，无论你启多少个线程，你有多少个cpu, Python在执行的时候会淡定的在同一时刻只允许一个线程运行，擦。。。，那这还叫什么多线程呀？莫如此早的下结结论，听我现场讲。

首先需要明确的一点是GIL并不是Python的特性，它是在实现Python解析器(CPython)时所引入的一个概念。就好比C++是一套语言（语法）标准，但是可以用不同的编译器来编译成可执行代码。有名的编译器例如GCC，INTEL C++，Visual C++等。Python也一样，同样一段代码可以通过CPython，PyPy，Psyco等不同的Python执行环境来执行。像其中的JPython就没有GIL。然而因为CPython是大部分环境下默认的Python执行环境。所以在很多人的概念里CPython就是Python，也就想当然的把GIL归结为Python语言的缺陷。所以这里要先明确一点：GIL并不是Python的特性，Python完全可以不依赖于GIL

这篇文章透彻的剖析了GIL对python多线程的影响，强烈推荐看一下：http://www.dabeaz.com/python/UnderstandingGIL.pdf 

 

Python threading模块

线程有2种调用方式，如下：

直接调用

import threading
import time
 
def sayhi(num): #定义每个线程要运行的函数
 
    print("running on number:%s" %num)
 
    time.sleep(3)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    t1 = threading.Thread(target=sayhi,args=(1,)) #生成一个线程实例
    t2 = threading.Thread(target=sayhi,args=(2,)) #生成另一个线程实例
 
    t1.start() #启动线程
    t2.start() #启动另一个线程
 
    print(t1.getName()) #获取线程名
    print(t2.getName())

继承式调用

import threading
import time
 
 
class MyThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self,num):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.num = num
 
    def run(self):#定义每个线程要运行的函数
 
        print("running on number:%s" %self.num)
 
        time.sleep(3)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    t1 = MyThread(1)
    t2 = MyThread(2)
    t1.start()
    t2.start()

Join & Daemon

Some threads do background tasks, like sending keepalive packets, or performing periodic garbage collection, or whatever. These are only useful when the main program is running, and it's okay to kill them off once the other, non-daemon, threads have exited.

Without daemon threads, you'd have to keep track of them, and tell them to exit, before your program can completely quit. By setting them as daemon threads, you can let them run and forget about them, and when your program quits, any daemon threads are killed automatically.

import time
import threading
 
def run(n):
 
    print('[%s]------running----\n' % n)
    time.sleep(2)
    print('--done--')
 
def main():
    for i in range(5):
        t = threading.Thread(target=run,args=[i,])
        #time.sleep(1)
        t.start()
        t.join(1)
        print('starting thread', t.getName())
 
 
m = threading.Thread(target=main,args=[])
m.setDaemon(True) #将主线程设置为Daemon线程,它退出时,其它子线程会同时退出,不管是否执行完任务
m.start()
#m.join(timeout=2)
print("---main thread done----")

Note：Daemon threads are abruptly stopped at shutdown. Their resources (such as open files, database transactions, etc.) may not be released properly. If you want your threads to stop gracefully, make them non-daemonic and use a suitable signalling mechanism such as an Event.

　　

 

 

线程锁(互斥锁Mutex)

一个进程下可以启动多个线程，多个线程共享父进程的内存空间，也就意味着每个线程可以访问同一份数据，此时，如果2个线程同时要修改同一份数据，会出现什么状况？

import time
import threading
 
def addNum():
    global num #在每个线程中都获取这个全局变量
    print('--get num:',num )
    time.sleep(1)
    num  -=1 #对此公共变量进行-1操作
 
num = 100  #设定一个共享变量
thread_list = []
for i in range(100):
    t = threading.Thread(target=addNum)
    t.start()
    thread_list.append(t)
 
for t in thread_list: #等待所有线程执行完毕
    t.join()
 
 
print('final num:', num )

正常来讲，这个num结果应该是0， 但在python 2.7上多运行几次，会发现，最后打印出来的num结果不总是0，为什么每次运行的结果不一样呢？ 哈，很简单，假设你有A,B两个线程，此时都 要对num 进行减1操作， 由于2个线程是并发同时运行的，所以2个线程很有可能同时拿走了num=100这个初始变量交给cpu去运算，当A线程去处完的结果是99，但此时B线程运算完的结果也是99，两个线程同时CPU运算的结果再赋值给num变量后，结果就都是99。那怎么办呢？ 很简单，每个线程在要修改公共数据时，为了避免自己在还没改完的时候别人也来修改此数据，可以给这个数据加一把锁， 这样其它线程想修改此数据时就必须等待你修改完毕并把锁释放掉后才能再访问此数据。 

*注：不要在3.x上运行，不知为什么，3.x上的结果总是正确的，可能是自动加了锁

加锁版本

import time
import threading
 
def addNum():
    global num #在每个线程中都获取这个全局变量
    print('--get num:',num )
    time.sleep(1)
    lock.acquire() #修改数据前加锁
    num  -=1 #对此公共变量进行-1操作
    lock.release() #修改后释放
 
num = 100  #设定一个共享变量
thread_list = []
lock = threading.Lock() #生成全局锁
for i in range(100):
    t = threading.Thread(target=addNum)
    t.start()
    thread_list.append(t)
 
for t in thread_list: #等待所有线程执行完毕
    t.join()
 
print('final num:', num )

RLock（递归锁）

说白了就是在一个大锁中还要再包含子锁

import threading,time
 
def run1():
    print("grab the first part data")
    lock.acquire()
    global num
    num +=1
    lock.release()
    return num
def run2():
    print("grab the second part data")
    lock.acquire()
    global  num2
    num2+=1
    lock.release()
    return num2
def run3():
    lock.acquire()
    res = run1()
    print('--------between run1 and run2-----')
    res2 = run2()
    lock.release()
    print(res,res2)
 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    num,num2 = 0,0
    lock = threading.RLock()
    for i in range(10):
        t = threading.Thread(target=run3)
        t.start()
 
while threading.active_count() != 1:
    print(threading.active_count())
else:
    print('----all threads done---')
    print(num,num2)

　

Semaphore(信号量)

互斥锁 同时只允许一个线程更改数据，而Semaphore是同时允许一定数量的线程更改数据 ，比如厕所有3个坑，那最多只允许3个人上厕所，后面的人只能等里面有人出来了才能再进去。

import threading,time
 
def run(n):
    semaphore.acquire()
    time.sleep(1)
    print("run the thread: %s\n" %n)
    semaphore.release()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    num= 0
    semaphore  = threading.BoundedSemaphore(5) #最多允许5个线程同时运行
    for i in range(20):
        t = threading.Thread(target=run,args=(i,))
        t.start()
 
while threading.active_count() != 1:
    pass #print threading.active_count()
else:
    print('----all threads done---')
    print(num)

Events

An event is a simple synchronization object;

the event represents an internal flag, and threads
can wait for the flag to be set, or set or clear the flag themselves.

event = threading.Event()

# a client thread can wait for the flag to be set
event.wait()

# a server thread can set or reset it
event.set()
event.clear()
If the flag is set, the wait method doesn’t do anything.
If the flag is cleared, wait will block until it becomes set again.
Any number of threads may wait for the same event.

通过Event来实现两个或多个线程间的交互，下面是一个红绿灯的例子，即起动一个线程做交通指挥灯，生成几个线程做车辆，车辆行驶按红灯停，绿灯行的规则。

import threading,time
import random
def light():
    if not event.isSet():
        event.set() #wait就不阻塞 #绿灯状态
    count = 0
    while True:
        if count < 10:
            print('\033[42;1m--green light on---\033[0m')
        elif count <13:
            print('\033[43;1m--yellow light on---\033[0m')
        elif count <20:
            if event.isSet():
                event.clear()
            print('\033[41;1m--red light on---\033[0m')
        else:
            count = 0
            event.set() #打开绿灯
        time.sleep(1)
        count +=1
def car(n):
    while 1:
        time.sleep(random.randrange(10))
        if  event.isSet(): #绿灯
            print("car [%s] is running.." % n)
        else:
            print("car [%s] is waiting for the red light.." %n)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    event = threading.Event()
    Light = threading.Thread(target=light)
    Light.start()
    for i in range(3):
        t = threading.Thread(target=car,args=(i,))
        t.start()

queue队列 

queue是线程安全的；

三种queue类型：

class queue.Queue(maxsize=0) #先入先出

class queue.LifoQueue(maxsize=0) #后进先出

class queue.PriorityQueue(maxsize=0) #存储数据时可设置优先级的队列put时使用

put(item=(<优先级整数越大优先级越高> <数据>))  以元组的形式存放item

queue的方法：

exception queue.Empty

阻塞取 get() （队列中空的时候取数据阻塞，超时抛异常）

非阻塞取 get_nowait()（队列中空的时候取数据抛异常）

exception queue.Full

阻塞放 put() （队列中满的时候放数据阻塞，超时抛异常）

非阻塞放or put_nowait()  （队列中满的时候放数据抛异常

Queue.qsize()

Queue.empty() #返回是不是空的bool值

Queue.full() # 返回是不是满的bool值

Queue.put(item, block=True, timeout=None)

Queue.put_nowait(item)

Queue.get(block=True, timeout=None)

Queue.get_nowait()

Queue.task_done() #告知生产者队列被消费完的信号

Queue.join() block直到queue被消费完毕

生产者消费者模型

import time,random
import queue,threading
q = queue.Queue()
def Producer(name):
  count = 0
  while count <20:
    time.sleep(random.randrange(3))
    q.put(count)
    print('Producer %s has produced %s baozi..' %(name, count))
    count +=1
def Consumer(name):
  count = 0
  while count <20:
    time.sleep(random.randrange(4))
    if not q.empty():
        data = q.get()
        print(data)
        print('\033[32;1mConsumer %s has eat %s baozi...\033[0m' %(name, data))
    else:
        print("-----no baozi anymore----")
    count +=1
p1 = threading.Thread(target=Producer, args=('A',))
c1 = threading.Thread(target=Consumer, args=('B',))
p1.start()
c1.start()

 

多进程multiprocessing

multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency,effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine. It runs on both Unix and Windows.

from multiprocessing import Process
import time
def f(name):
    time.sleep(2)
    print('hello', name)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    p = Process(target=f, args=('bob',))
    p.start()
    p.join()

To show the individual process IDs involved, here is an expanded example:

from multiprocessing import Process
import os
 
def info(title):
    print(title)
    print('module name:', __name__)
    print('parent process:', os.getppid())
    print('process id:', os.getpid())
    print("\n\n")
 
def f(name):
    info('\033[31;1mfunction f\033[0m')
    print('hello', name)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    info('\033[32;1mmain process line\033[0m')
    p = Process(target=f, args=('bob',))
    p.start()
    p.join()

进程间通讯　　

不同进程间内存是不共享的，要想实现两个进程间的数据交换，可以用以下方法：

Queues

使用方法跟threading里的queue差不多

from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
 
def f(q):
    q.put([42, None, 'hello'])
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    q = Queue()
    p = Process(target=f, args=(q,))
    p.start()
    print(q.get())    # prints "[42, None, 'hello']"
    p.join()

Pipes

The Pipe() function returns a pair of connection objects connected by a pipe which by default is duplex (two-way). For example:

from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe
 
def f(conn):
    conn.send([42, None, 'hello'])
    conn.close()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
    p = Process(target=f, args=(child_conn,))
    p.start()
    print(parent_conn.recv())   # prints "[42, None, 'hello']"
    p.join()

The two connection objects returned by Pipe() represent the two ends of the pipe. Each connection object has send() and recv() methods (among others). Note that data in a pipe may become corrupted if two processes (or threads) try to read from or write to the same end of the pipe at the same time. Of course there is no risk of corruption from processes using different ends of the pipe at the same time.

Managers

A manager object returned by Manager() controls a server process which holds Python objects and allows other processes to manipulate them using proxies.

A manager returned by Manager() will support types list, dict, Namespace, Lock, RLock, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore, Condition, Event, Barrier, Queue, Value and Array. For example,

from multiprocessing import Process, Manager
 
def f(d, l):
    d[1] = '1'
    d['2'] = 2
    d[0.25] = None
    l.append(1)
    print(l)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    with Manager() as manager:
        d = manager.dict()
 
        l = manager.list(range(5))
        p_list = []
        for i in range(10):
            p = Process(target=f, args=(d, l))
            p.start()
            p_list.append(p)
        for res in p_list:
            res.join()
 
        print(d)
        print(l)

进程同步

Without using the lock output from the different processes is liable to get all mixed up.

from multiprocessing import Process, Lock
 
def f(l, i):
    l.acquire()
    try:
        print('hello world', i)
    finally:
        l.release()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    lock = Lock()
 
    for num in range(10):
        Process(target=f, args=(lock, num)).start()

进程池　　

进程池内部维护一个进程序列，当使用时，则去进程池中获取一个进程，如果进程池序列中没有可供使用的进进程，那么程序就会等待，直到进程池中有可用进程为止。

进程池中有两个方法：

• apply
• apply_async

from  multiprocessing import Process,Pool
import time
 
def Foo(i):
    time.sleep(2)
    return i+100
 
def Bar(arg):
    print('-->exec done:',arg)
 
####windows下需要使用
#import freeze_support
#freeze_support()

pool = Pool(5)
 
for i in range(10):

    pool.apply_async(func=Foo, args=(i,),callback=Bar)
    #pool.apply(func=Foo, args=(i,))
 
print('end')
pool.close()
pool.join()#进程池中进程执行完毕后再关闭，如果注释，那么程序直接关闭。

 

协程

协程，又称微线程，纤程。英文名Coroutine。一句话说明什么是线程：协程是一种用户态的轻量级线程。

协程拥有自己的寄存器上下文和栈。协程调度切换时，将寄存器上下文和栈保存到其他地方，在切回来的时候，恢复先前保存的寄存器上下文和栈。因此：

协程能保留上一次调用时的状态（即所有局部状态的一个特定组合），每次过程重入时，就相当于进入上一次调用的状态，换种说法：进入上一次离开时所处逻辑流的位置。

 

协程的好处：

• 无需线程上下文切换的开销
• 无需原子操作锁定及同步的开销
• 方便切换控制流，简化编程模型
• 高并发+高扩展性+低成本：一个CPU支持上万的协程都不是问题。所以很适合用于高并发处理。

缺点：

• 无法利用多核资源：协程的本质是个单线程,它不能同时将 单个CPU 的多个核用上,协程需要和进程配合才能运行在多CPU上.当然我们日常所编写的绝大部分应用都没有这个必要，除非是cpu密集型应用。
• 进行阻塞（Blocking）操作（如IO时）会阻塞掉整个程序

使用yield实现协程操作例子　　　　

import time
import queue
def consumer(name):
    print("--->starting eating baozi...")
    while True:
        new_baozi = yield
        print("[%s] is eating baozi %s" % (name,new_baozi))
        #time.sleep(1)
 
def producer():
 
    r = con.__next__()
    r = con2.__next__()
    n = 0
    while n < 5:
        n +=1
        con.send(n)
        con2.send(n)
        print("\033[32;1m[producer]\033[0m is making baozi %s" %n )
 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    con = consumer("c1")
    con2 = consumer("c2")
    p = producer()

Greenlet

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
  
  
from greenlet import greenlet
  
  
def test1():
    print 12
    gr2.switch()
    print 34
    gr2.switch()
  
  
def test2():
    print 56
    gr1.switch()
    print 78
  
gr1 = greenlet(test1)
gr2 = greenlet(test2)
gr1.switch()

Gevent 

Gevent 是一个第三方库，可以轻松通过gevent实现并发同步或异步编程，在gevent中用到的主要模式是Greenlet, 它是以C扩展模块形式接入Python的轻量级协程。 Greenlet全部运行在主程序操作系统进程的内部，但它们被协作式地调度。

import gevent
 
def foo():
    print('Running in foo')
    gevent.sleep(0)
    print('Explicit context switch to foo again')
 
def bar():
    print('Explicit context to bar')
    gevent.sleep(0)
    print('Implicit context switch back to bar')
 
gevent.joinall([
    gevent.spawn(foo),
    gevent.spawn(bar),
])

输出：

Running in foo
Explicit context to bar
Explicit context switch to foo again
Implicit context switch back to bar

同步与异步的性能区别 

import gevent
 
def task(pid):
    """
    Some non-deterministic task
    """
    gevent.sleep(0.5)
    print('Task %s done' % pid)
 
def synchronous():
    for i in range(1,10):
        task(i)
 
def asynchronous():
    threads = [gevent.spawn(task, i) for i in range(10)]
    gevent.joinall(threads)
 
print('Synchronous:')
synchronous()
 
print('Asynchronous:')
asynchronous()

上面程序的重要部分是将task函数封装到Greenlet内部线程的gevent.spawn。 初始化的greenlet列表存放在数组threads中，此数组被传给gevent.joinall 函数，后者阻塞当前流程，并执行所有给定的greenlet。执行流程只会在 所有greenlet执行完后才会继续向下走。　　

遇到IO阻塞时会自动切换任务

from gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_all()
import gevent
from  urllib.request import urlopen
 
def f(url):
    print('GET: %s' % url)
    resp = urlopen(url)
    data = resp.read()
    print('%d bytes received from %s.' % (len(data), url))
 
gevent.joinall([
        gevent.spawn(f, 'https://www.python.org/'),
        gevent.spawn(f, 'https://www.yahoo.com/'),
        gevent.spawn(f, 'https://github.com/'),
])

通过gevent实现单线程下的多socket并发

server side 

import sys
import socket
import time
import gevent
 
from gevent import socket,monkey
monkey.patch_all()
def server(port):
    s = socket.socket()
    s.bind(('0.0.0.0', port))
    s.listen(500)
    while True:
        cli, addr = s.accept()
        gevent.spawn(handle_request, cli)
def handle_request(s):
    try:
        while True:
            data = s.recv(1024)
            print("recv:", data)
            s.send(data)
            if not data:
                s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
 
    except Exception as  ex:
        print(ex)
    finally:
 
        s.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    server(8001)

client side 　

import socket
 
HOST = 'localhost'    # The remote host
PORT = 8001           # The same port as used by the server
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
while True:
    msg = bytes(input(">>:"),encoding="utf8")
    s.sendall(msg)
    data = s.recv(1024)
    #print(data)
 
    print('Received', repr(data))
s.close()