使用全新的concurrent.futures模块

def sqr(val):
    import time
    time.sleep(0.1)
    return val * val

def process_result(result):
    print(result)

def process_these_asap(tasks):
    import concurrent.futures

    with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
        futures = []
        for task in tasks:
            futures.append(executor.submit(sqr, task))

        for future in concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures):
            process_result(future.result())
        # Or instead of all this just do:
        # results = executor.map(sqr, tasks)
        # list(map(process_result, results))

def main():
    tasks = list(range(10))
    print('Processing {} tasks'.format(len(tasks)))
    process_these_asap(tasks)
    print('Done')
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    sys.exit(main())

执行器方法对于所有以前接触过Java的人来说似乎都很熟悉。

还有一个附带说明：为了保持宇宙的正常，如果你不使用上下文，不要忘记关闭你的池/执行器（这是如此棒，它为你做了）

借用本文，我们了解了如何在多线程、多处理和异步/异步之间进行选择及其用法。

Python 3有一个新的内置库，以实现并发和并行-concurrent.futures

因此，我将通过一个实验演示如何通过线程池运行四个任务（即.sleep（）方法）：

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
from time import sleep, time

def concurrent(max_worker):
    futures = []
    tic = time()
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_worker) as executor:
        futures.append(executor.submit(sleep, 2))  # Two seconds sleep
        futures.append(executor.submit(sleep, 1))
        futures.append(executor.submit(sleep, 7))
        futures.append(executor.submit(sleep, 3))
        for future in as_completed(futures):
            if future.result() is not None:
                print(future.result())
    print(f'Total elapsed time by {max_worker} workers:', time()-tic)

concurrent(5)
concurrent(4)
concurrent(3)
concurrent(2)
concurrent(1)

输出：

Total elapsed time by 5 workers: 7.007831811904907
Total elapsed time by 4 workers: 7.007944107055664
Total elapsed time by 3 workers: 7.003149509429932
Total elapsed time by 2 workers: 8.004627466201782
Total elapsed time by 1 workers: 13.013478994369507

[注]：

正如您在上面的结果中看到的，最好的情况是这四项任务有3名员工。如果有进程任务而不是I/O绑定或阻塞（多处理而不是线程），则可以将ThreadPoolExecutor更改为ProcessPoolExecutoor。

我发现这非常有用：创建与内核一样多的线程，并让它们执行（大量）任务（在本例中，调用shell程序）：

import Queue
import threading
import multiprocessing
import subprocess

q = Queue.Queue()
for i in range(30): # Put 30 tasks in the queue
    q.put(i)

def worker():
    while True:
        item = q.get()
        # Execute a task: call a shell program and wait until it completes
        subprocess.call("echo " + str(item), shell=True)
        q.task_done()

cpus = multiprocessing.cpu_count() # Detect number of cores
print("Creating %d threads" % cpus)
for i in range(cpus):
     t = threading.Thread(target=worker)
     t.daemon = True
     t.start()

q.join() # Block until all tasks are done

注意：对于Python中的实际并行化，您应该使用多处理模块来分叉并行执行的多个进程（由于全局解释器锁，Python线程提供了交织，但实际上它们是串行执行的，而不是并行执行的，并且仅在交织I/O操作时有用）。

然而，如果您只是在寻找交错（或者正在执行可以并行化的I/O操作，尽管存在全局解释器锁），那么线程模块就是开始的地方。作为一个非常简单的例子，让我们考虑通过并行对子范围求和来对大范围求和的问题：

import threading

class SummingThread(threading.Thread):
     def __init__(self,low,high):
         super(SummingThread, self).__init__()
         self.low=low
         self.high=high
         self.total=0

     def run(self):
         for i in range(self.low,self.high):
             self.total+=i


thread1 = SummingThread(0,500000)
thread2 = SummingThread(500000,1000000)
thread1.start() # This actually causes the thread to run
thread2.start()
thread1.join()  # This waits until the thread has completed
thread2.join()
# At this point, both threads have completed
result = thread1.total + thread2.total
print result

请注意，以上是一个非常愚蠢的示例，因为它绝对没有I/O，并且由于全局解释器锁，虽然在CPython中交错执行（增加了上下文切换的开销），但仍将串行执行。

Alex Martelli的回答对我有所帮助。不过，这里有一个我认为更有用的修改版本（至少对我来说）。

更新：可在Python 2和Python 3中使用

try:
    # For Python 3
    import queue
    from urllib.request import urlopen
except:
    # For Python 2 
    import Queue as queue
    from urllib2 import urlopen

import threading

worker_data = ['http://google.com', 'http://yahoo.com', 'http://bing.com']

# Load up a queue with your data. This will handle locking
q = queue.Queue()
for url in worker_data:
    q.put(url)

# Define a worker function
def worker(url_queue):
    queue_full = True
    while queue_full:
        try:
            # Get your data off the queue, and do some work
            url = url_queue.get(False)
            data = urlopen(url).read()
            print(len(data))

        except queue.Empty:
            queue_full = False

# Create as many threads as you want
thread_count = 5
for i in range(thread_count):
    t = threading.Thread(target=worker, args = (q,))
    t.start()

使用线程/多处理的最简单方法是使用更多高级库，如autothread。

import autothread
from time import sleep as heavyworkload

@autothread.multithreaded() # <-- This is all you need to add
def example(x: int, y: int):
    heavyworkload(1)
    return x*y

现在，您可以为函数提供int列表。Autothread将为您处理所有事务，并只提供并行计算的结果。

result = example([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 10)