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  <div class="section" id="tornado-concurrent-work-with-threads-and-futures">
<h1><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tornado.concurrent</span></code> &#8212; Work with threads and futures<a class="headerlink" href="#tornado-concurrent-work-with-threads-and-futures" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<span class="target" id="module-tornado.concurrent"></span><p>Utilities for working with threads and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Futures</span></code>.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Futures</span></code> are a pattern for concurrent programming introduced in
Python 3.2 in the <a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#module-concurrent.futures" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures</span></code></a> package. This package defines
a mostly-compatible <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> class designed for use from coroutines,
as well as some utility functions for interacting with the
<a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#module-concurrent.futures" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures</span></code></a> package.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">tornado.concurrent.</code><code class="descname">Future</code><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Placeholder for an asynchronous result.</p>
<p>A <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code> encapsulates the result of an asynchronous
operation.  In synchronous applications <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Futures</span></code> are used
to wait for the result from a thread or process pool; in
Tornado they are normally used with <a class="reference internal" href="ioloop.html#tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future" title="tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">IOLoop.add_future</span></code></a> or by
yielding them in a <a class="reference internal" href="gen.html#tornado.gen.coroutine" title="tornado.gen.coroutine"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">gen.coroutine</span></code></a>.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">tornado.concurrent.Future</span></code></a> is similar to
<a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.futures.Future" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures.Future</span></code></a>, but not thread-safe (and therefore
faster for use with single-threaded event loops).</p>
<p>In addition to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exception</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_exception</span></code>, methods <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exc_info</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_exc_info</span></code> are supported to capture tracebacks in Python 2.
The traceback is automatically available in Python 3, but in the
Python 2 futures backport this information is discarded.
This functionality was previously available in a separate class
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TracebackFuture</span></code>, which is now a deprecated alias for this class.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 4.0: </span><a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">tornado.concurrent.Future</span></code></a> is always a thread-unsafe <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code>
with support for the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exc_info</span></code> methods.  Previously it would
be an alias for the thread-safe <a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.futures.Future" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures.Future</span></code></a>
if that package was available and fall back to the thread-unsafe
implementation if it was not.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 4.1: </span>If a <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> contains an error but that error is never observed
(by calling <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">result()</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exception()</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exc_info()</span></code>),
a stack trace will be logged when the <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> is garbage collected.
This normally indicates an error in the application, but in cases
where it results in undesired logging it may be necessary to
suppress the logging by ensuring that the exception is observed:
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">f.add_done_callback(lambda</span> <span class="pre">f:</span> <span class="pre">f.exception())</span></code>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<div class="section" id="consumer-methods">
<h2>Consumer methods<a class="headerlink" href="#consumer-methods" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.result">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">result</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>timeout=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.result"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.result" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>If the operation succeeded, return its result.  If it failed,
re-raise its exception.</p>
<p>This method takes a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timeout</span></code> argument for compatibility with
<a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.futures.Future" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures.Future</span></code></a> but it is an error to call it
before the <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> is done, so the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timeout</span></code> is never used.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.exception">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">exception</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>timeout=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.exception"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.exception" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>If the operation raised an exception, return the <a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/exceptions.html#Exception" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Exception</span></code></a>
object.  Otherwise returns None.</p>
<p>This method takes a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timeout</span></code> argument for compatibility with
<a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.futures.Future" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">concurrent.futures.Future</span></code></a> but it is an error to call it
before the <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> is done, so the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timeout</span></code> is never used.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.exc_info">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">exc_info</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.exc_info"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.exc_info" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a tuple in the same format as <a class="reference external" href="/usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/sys.html#sys.exc_info" title="(in Python v3.5)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info</span></code></a> or None.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 4.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.add_done_callback">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">add_done_callback</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fn</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.add_done_callback"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.add_done_callback" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Attaches the given callback to the <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>It will be invoked with the <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a> as its argument when the Future
has finished running and its result is available.  In Tornado
consider using <a class="reference internal" href="ioloop.html#tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future" title="tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">IOLoop.add_future</span></code></a> instead of calling
<a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.add_done_callback" title="tornado.concurrent.Future.add_done_callback"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_done_callback</span></code></a> directly.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.done">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">done</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.done"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.done" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns True if the future has finished running.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.running">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">running</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.running"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.running" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns True if this operation is currently running.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.cancel">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">cancel</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.cancel"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.cancel" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Cancel the operation, if possible.</p>
<p>Tornado <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Futures</span></code> do not support cancellation, so this method always
returns False.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.cancelled">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">cancelled</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.cancelled"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.cancelled" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns True if the operation has been cancelled.</p>
<p>Tornado <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Futures</span></code> do not support cancellation, so this method
always returns False.</p>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="producer-methods">
<h2>Producer methods<a class="headerlink" href="#producer-methods" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.set_result">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">set_result</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>result</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.set_result"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.set_result" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Sets the result of a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code>.</p>
<p>It is undefined to call any of the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set</span></code> methods more than once
on the same object.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.set_exception">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">set_exception</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>exception</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.set_exception"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.set_exception" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Sets the exception of a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future.</span></code></p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.Future.set_exc_info">
<code class="descclassname">Future.</code><code class="descname">set_exc_info</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>exc_info</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#Future.set_exc_info"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.set_exc_info" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Sets the exception information of a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future.</span></code></p>
<p>Preserves tracebacks on Python 2.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified">New in version 4.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.run_on_executor">
<code class="descclassname">tornado.concurrent.</code><code class="descname">run_on_executor</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#run_on_executor"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.run_on_executor" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Decorator to run a synchronous method asynchronously on an executor.</p>
<p>The decorated method may be called with a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">callback</span></code> keyword
argument and returns a future.</p>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="ioloop.html#tornado.ioloop.IOLoop" title="tornado.ioloop.IOLoop"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">IOLoop</span></code></a> and executor to be used are determined by the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">io_loop</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">executor</span></code> attributes of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">self</span></code>. To use different attributes,
pass keyword arguments to the decorator:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nd">@run_on_executor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">executor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;_thread_pool&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">foo</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">pass</span>
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<p><span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 4.2: </span>Added keyword arguments to use alternative attributes.</p>
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<dt id="tornado.concurrent.return_future">
<code class="descclassname">tornado.concurrent.</code><code class="descname">return_future</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>f</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#return_future"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.return_future" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Decorator to make a function that returns via callback return a
<a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future" title="tornado.concurrent.Future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The wrapped function should take a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">callback</span></code> keyword argument
and invoke it with one argument when it has finished.  To signal failure,
the function can simply raise an exception (which will be
captured by the <a class="reference internal" href="stack_context.html#tornado.stack_context.StackContext" title="tornado.stack_context.StackContext"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">StackContext</span></code></a> and passed along to the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code>).</p>
<p>From the caller&#8217;s perspective, the callback argument is optional.
If one is given, it will be invoked when the function is complete
with <a class="reference internal" href="#tornado.concurrent.Future.result" title="tornado.concurrent.Future.result"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future.result()</span></code></a> as an argument.  If the function fails, the
callback will not be run and an exception will be raised into the
surrounding <a class="reference internal" href="stack_context.html#tornado.stack_context.StackContext" title="tornado.stack_context.StackContext"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">StackContext</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>If no callback is given, the caller should use the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Future</span></code> to
wait for the function to complete (perhaps by yielding it in a
<a class="reference internal" href="gen.html#tornado.gen.engine" title="tornado.gen.engine"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">gen.engine</span></code></a> function, or passing it to <a class="reference internal" href="ioloop.html#tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future" title="tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.add_future"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">IOLoop.add_future</span></code></a>).</p>
<p>Usage:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nd">@return_future</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">future_func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">arg1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">arg2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">callback</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># Do stuff (possibly asynchronous)</span>
    <span class="n">callback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">result</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nd">@gen</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">engine</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">caller</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">callback</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">yield</span> <span class="n">future_func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">arg1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">arg2</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">callback</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<p>Note that <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;return_future</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;gen.engine</span></code> can be applied to the
same function, provided <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;return_future</span></code> appears first.  However,
consider using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&#64;gen.coroutine</span></code> instead of this combination.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="tornado.concurrent.chain_future">
<code class="descclassname">tornado.concurrent.</code><code class="descname">chain_future</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>a</em>, <em>b</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="_modules/tornado/concurrent.html#chain_future"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#tornado.concurrent.chain_future" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Chain two futures together so that when one completes, so does the other.</p>
<p>The result (success or failure) of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">a</span></code> will be copied to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">b</span></code>, unless
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">b</span></code> has already been completed or cancelled by the time <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">a</span></code> finishes.</p>
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