Popen.send_signal(signal) Sends the signal signal to the child.

getName() setName() Old getter/setter API for name; use it directly as a property instead.

multiprocessing.cpu_count() Return the number of CPUs in the system. May raise

multiprocessing.connection.deliver_challenge(connection, authkey) Send a randomly generated message to the other end of the

scheduler.empty() Return true if the event queue is empty.

class threading.local A class that represents thread-local data. For more details and extensive

returncode Exit status of the child process. Typically, an exit status of 0 indicates that it ran successfully.

close() Prevents any more tasks from being submitted to the pool. Once all the tasks have been completed the worker processes

scheduler.enter(delay, priority, action, argument=(), kwargs={}) Schedule an event for delay more time units. Other

release() Release a lock, decrementing the recursion level. If after the decrement the recursion level is zero, reset the lock