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16 "Using dill to pickle anything"
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23 "IPython.parallel doesn't do much in the way of serialization.\n",
24 "It has custom zero-copy handling of numpy arrays,\n",
25 "but other than that, it doesn't do anything other than the bare minimum to make basic interactively defined functions and classes sendable.\n",
26 "\n",
27 "There are a few projects that extend pickle to make just about anything sendable, and one of these is [dill](http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/dill).\n",
28 "\n",
29 "To install dill:\n",
30 " \n",
31 " pip install dill"
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38 "First, as always, we create a task function, this time with a closure"
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45 "def make_closure(a):\n",
46 " \"\"\"make a function with a closure, and return it\"\"\"\n",
47 " def has_closure(b):\n",
48 " return a * b\n",
49 " return has_closure"
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60 "closed = make_closure(5)"
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91 "import pickle"
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102 "Without help, pickle can't deal with closures"
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109 "pickle.dumps(closed)"
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173 "So from now on, pretty much everything is pickleable."
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181 "Now use this in IPython.parallel"
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188 "As usual, we start by creating our Client and View"
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195 "from IPython import parallel\n",
196 "rc = parallel.Client()\n",
197 "view = rc.load_balanced_view()"
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208 "Now let's try sending our function with a closure:"
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247 "source": [
248 "Oops, no dice. For IPython to work with dill,\n",
249 "there are one or two more steps. IPython will do these for you if you call `pickleutil.use_dill`:"
250 ]
251 },
252 {
253 "cell_type": "code",
254 "collapsed": false,
255 "input": [
256 "from IPython.utils import pickleutil\n",
257 "pickleutil.use_dill()"
258 ],
259 "language": "python",
260 "metadata": {},
261 "outputs": [],
262 "prompt_number": 10
263 },
264 {
265 "cell_type": "markdown",
266 "metadata": {},
267 "source": [
268 "Now let's try again"
269 ]
270 },
271 {
272 "cell_type": "code",
273 "collapsed": false,
274 "input": [
275 "view.apply_sync(closed, 3)"
276 ],
277 "language": "python",
278 "metadata": {},
279 "outputs": [
280 {
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282 "output_type": "pyout",
283 "prompt_number": 11,
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285 "15"
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291 {
292 "cell_type": "markdown",
293 "metadata": {},
294 "source": [
295 "Yay! Now we can use dill to allow IPython.parallel to send anything.\n",
296 "\n",
297 "And that's it! We can send closures and other previously non-pickleables to our engines.\n",
298 "\n",
299 "But wait, there's more!"
300 ]
301 },
302 {
303 "cell_type": "code",
304 "collapsed": false,
305 "input": [
306 "view.apply_sync(make_closure, 2)"
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308 "language": "python",
309 "metadata": {},
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338 "source": [
339 "If we want dill support for objects coming *from* the engines,\n",
340 "then we need to call `use_dill()` there as well.\n",
341 "\n",
342 "`DirectView` objects have a method to call `use_dill` locally and on every engine:"
343 ]
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346 "cell_type": "code",
347 "collapsed": false,
348 "input": [
349 "rc[:].use_dill()"
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351 "language": "python",
352 "metadata": {},
353 "outputs": [
354 {
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359 "<AsyncResult: use_dill>"
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365 {
366 "cell_type": "markdown",
367 "metadata": {},
368 "source": [
369 "This is equivalent to\n",
370 "\n",
371 "```python\n",
372 "from IPython.utils.pickleutil import use_dill\n",
373 "use_dill()\n",
374 "rc[:].apply(use_dill)\n",
375 "```"
376 ]
377 },
378 {
379 "cell_type": "markdown",
380 "metadata": {},
381 "source": [
382 "Let's give it a try now:"
383 ]
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385 {
386 "cell_type": "code",
387 "collapsed": false,
388 "input": [
389 "remote_closure = view.apply_sync(make_closure, 4)\n",
390 "remote_closure(5)"
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392 "language": "python",
393 "metadata": {},
394 "outputs": [
395 {
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397 "output_type": "pyout",
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406 {
407 "cell_type": "markdown",
408 "metadata": {},
409 "source": [
410 "At this point, we can send/recv all kinds of stuff"
411 ]
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415 "collapsed": false,
416 "input": [
417 "def outer(a):\n",
418 " def inner(b):\n",
419 " def inner_again(c):\n",
420 " return c * b * a\n",
421 " return inner_again\n",
422 " return inner"
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425 "metadata": {},
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431 "metadata": {},
432 "source": [
433 "So outer returns a function with a closure, which returns a function with a closure.\n",
434 "\n",
435 "Now, we can resolve the first closure on the engine, the second here, and the third on a different engine,\n",
436 "after passing through a lambda we define here and call there, just for good measure."
437 ]
438 },
439 {
440 "cell_type": "code",
441 "collapsed": false,
442 "input": [
443 "view.apply_sync(lambda f: f(3),view.apply_sync(outer, 1)(2))"
444 ],
445 "language": "python",
446 "metadata": {},
447 "outputs": [
448 {
449 "metadata": {},
450 "output_type": "pyout",
451 "prompt_number": 16,
452 "text": [
453 "6"
454 ]
455 }
456 ],
457 "prompt_number": 16
458 }
459 ],
460 "metadata": {}
461 }
462 ]
463 } No newline at end of file
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