4 Summary: Backport of the concurrent.futures package from Python 3
5 Home-page: https://github.com/agronholm/pythonfutures
7 Author-email: brian@sweetapp.com
8 Maintainer: Alex Grönholm
9 Maintainer-email: alex.gronholm@nextday.fi
12 Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License
13 Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
14 Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
15 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
16 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
17 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2 :: Only
18 Requires-Python: >=2.6, <3
20 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/agronholm/pythonfutures.svg?branch=master
21 :target: https://travis-ci.org/agronholm/pythonfutures
24 This is a backport of the `concurrent.futures`_ standard library module to Python 2.
26 It **does not** work on Python 3 due to Python 2 syntax being used in the codebase.
27 Python 3 users should not attempt to install it, since the package is already included in the
30 To conditionally require this library only on Python 2, you can do this in your ``setup.py``:
32 .. code-block:: python
37 ':python_version == "2.7"': ['futures']
41 Or, using the newer syntax:
43 .. code-block:: python
48 'futures; python_version == "2.7"'
52 .. warning:: The ``ProcessPoolExecutor`` class has known (unfixable) problems on Python 2 and
53 should not be relied on for mission critical work. Please see `Issue 29 <https://github.com/agronholm/pythonfutures/issues/29>`_ and `upstream bug report <https://bugs.python.org/issue9205>`_ for more details.
55 .. _concurrent.futures: https://docs.python.org/library/concurrent.futures.html