# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """Manage background (threaded) jobs conveniently from an interactive shell. This module provides a BackgroundJobManager class. This is the main class meant for public usage, it implements an object which can create and manage new background jobs. It also provides the actual job classes managed by these BackgroundJobManager objects, see their docstrings below. This system was inspired by discussions with B. Granger and the BackgroundCommand class described in the book Python Scripting for Computational Science, by H. P. Langtangen: http://folk.uio.no/hpl/scripting (although ultimately no code from this text was used, as IPython's system is a separate implementation). An example notebook is provided in our documentation illustrating interactive use of the system. """ from __future__ import print_function #***************************************************************************** # Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Fernando Perez # # Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in # the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software. #***************************************************************************** # Code begins import sys import threading from IPython import get_ipython from IPython.core.ultratb import AutoFormattedTB from logging import error from IPython.utils.py3compat import string_types class BackgroundJobManager(object): """Class to manage a pool of backgrounded threaded jobs. Below, we assume that 'jobs' is a BackgroundJobManager instance. Usage summary (see the method docstrings for details): jobs.new(...) -> start a new job jobs() or jobs.status() -> print status summary of all jobs jobs[N] -> returns job number N. foo = jobs[N].result -> assign to variable foo the result of job N jobs[N].traceback() -> print the traceback of dead job N jobs.remove(N) -> remove (finished) job N jobs.flush() -> remove all finished jobs As a convenience feature, BackgroundJobManager instances provide the utility result and traceback methods which retrieve the corresponding information from the jobs list: jobs.result(N) <--> jobs[N].result jobs.traceback(N) <--> jobs[N].traceback() While this appears minor, it allows you to use tab completion interactively on the job manager instance. """ def __init__(self): # Lists for job management, accessed via a property to ensure they're # up to date.x self._running = [] self._completed = [] self._dead = [] # A dict of all jobs, so users can easily access any of them self.all = {} # For reporting self._comp_report = [] self._dead_report = [] # Store status codes locally for fast lookups self._s_created = BackgroundJobBase.stat_created_c self._s_running = BackgroundJobBase.stat_running_c self._s_completed = BackgroundJobBase.stat_completed_c self._s_dead = BackgroundJobBase.stat_dead_c @property def running(self): self._update_status() return self._running @property def dead(self): self._update_status() return self._dead @property def completed(self): self._update_status() return self._completed def new(self, func_or_exp, *args, **kwargs): """Add a new background job and start it in a separate thread. There are two types of jobs which can be created: 1. Jobs based on expressions which can be passed to an eval() call. The expression must be given as a string. For example: job_manager.new('myfunc(x,y,z=1)'[,glob[,loc]]) The given expression is passed to eval(), along with the optional global/local dicts provided. If no dicts are given, they are extracted automatically from the caller's frame. A Python statement is NOT a valid eval() expression. Basically, you can only use as an eval() argument something which can go on the right of an '=' sign and be assigned to a variable. For example,"print 'hello'" is not valid, but '2+3' is. 2. Jobs given a function object, optionally passing additional positional arguments: job_manager.new(myfunc, x, y) The function is called with the given arguments. If you need to pass keyword arguments to your function, you must supply them as a dict named kw: job_manager.new(myfunc, x, y, kw=dict(z=1)) The reason for this assymmetry is that the new() method needs to maintain access to its own keywords, and this prevents name collisions between arguments to new() and arguments to your own functions. In both cases, the result is stored in the job.result field of the background job object. You can set `daemon` attribute of the thread by giving the keyword argument `daemon`. Notes and caveats: 1. All threads running share the same standard output. Thus, if your background jobs generate output, it will come out on top of whatever you are currently writing. For this reason, background jobs are best used with silent functions which simply return their output. 2. Threads also all work within the same global namespace, and this system does not lock interactive variables. So if you send job to the background which operates on a mutable object for a long time, and start modifying that same mutable object interactively (or in another backgrounded job), all sorts of bizarre behaviour will occur. 3. If a background job is spending a lot of time inside a C extension module which does not release the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), this will block the IPython prompt. This is simply because the Python interpreter can only switch between threads at Python bytecodes. While the execution is inside C code, the interpreter must simply wait unless the extension module releases the GIL. 4. There is no way, due to limitations in the Python threads library, to kill a thread once it has started.""" if callable(func_or_exp): kw = kwargs.get('kw',{}) job = BackgroundJobFunc(func_or_exp,*args,**kw) elif isinstance(func_or_exp, string_types): if not args: frame = sys._getframe(1) glob, loc = frame.f_globals, frame.f_locals elif len(args)==1: glob = loc = args[0] elif len(args)==2: glob,loc = args else: raise ValueError( 'Expression jobs take at most 2 args (globals,locals)') job = BackgroundJobExpr(func_or_exp, glob, loc) else: raise TypeError('invalid args for new job') if kwargs.get('daemon', False): job.daemon = True job.num = len(self.all)+1 if self.all else 0 self.running.append(job) self.all[job.num] = job print('Starting job # %s in a separate thread.' % job.num) job.start() return job def __getitem__(self, job_key): num = job_key if isinstance(job_key, int) else job_key.num return self.all[num] def __call__(self): """An alias to self.status(), This allows you to simply call a job manager instance much like the Unix `jobs` shell command.""" return self.status() def _update_status(self): """Update the status of the job lists. This method moves finished jobs to one of two lists: - self.completed: jobs which completed successfully - self.dead: jobs which finished but died. It also copies those jobs to corresponding _report lists. These lists are used to report jobs completed/dead since the last update, and are then cleared by the reporting function after each call.""" # Status codes srun, scomp, sdead = self._s_running, self._s_completed, self._s_dead # State lists, use the actual lists b/c the public names are properties # that call this very function on access running, completed, dead = self._running, self._completed, self._dead # Now, update all state lists for num, job in enumerate(running): stat = job.stat_code if stat == srun: continue elif stat == scomp: completed.append(job) self._comp_report.append(job) running[num] = False elif stat == sdead: dead.append(job) self._dead_report.append(job) running[num] = False # Remove dead/completed jobs from running list running[:] = filter(None, running) def _group_report(self,group,name): """Report summary for a given job group. Return True if the group had any elements.""" if group: print('%s jobs:' % name) for job in group: print('%s : %s' % (job.num,job)) print() return True def _group_flush(self,group,name): """Flush a given job group Return True if the group had any elements.""" njobs = len(group) if njobs: plural = {1:''}.setdefault(njobs,'s') print('Flushing %s %s job%s.' % (njobs,name,plural)) group[:] = [] return True def _status_new(self): """Print the status of newly finished jobs. Return True if any new jobs are reported. This call resets its own state every time, so it only reports jobs which have finished since the last time it was called.""" self._update_status() new_comp = self._group_report(self._comp_report, 'Completed') new_dead = self._group_report(self._dead_report, 'Dead, call jobs.traceback() for details') self._comp_report[:] = [] self._dead_report[:] = [] return new_comp or new_dead def status(self,verbose=0): """Print a status of all jobs currently being managed.""" self._update_status() self._group_report(self.running,'Running') self._group_report(self.completed,'Completed') self._group_report(self.dead,'Dead') # Also flush the report queues self._comp_report[:] = [] self._dead_report[:] = [] def remove(self,num): """Remove a finished (completed or dead) job.""" try: job = self.all[num] except KeyError: error('Job #%s not found' % num) else: stat_code = job.stat_code if stat_code == self._s_running: error('Job #%s is still running, it can not be removed.' % num) return elif stat_code == self._s_completed: self.completed.remove(job) elif stat_code == self._s_dead: self.dead.remove(job) def flush(self): """Flush all finished jobs (completed and dead) from lists. Running jobs are never flushed. It first calls _status_new(), to update info. If any jobs have completed since the last _status_new() call, the flush operation aborts.""" # Remove the finished jobs from the master dict alljobs = self.all for job in self.completed+self.dead: del(alljobs[job.num]) # Now flush these lists completely fl_comp = self._group_flush(self.completed, 'Completed') fl_dead = self._group_flush(self.dead, 'Dead') if not (fl_comp or fl_dead): print('No jobs to flush.') def result(self,num): """result(N) -> return the result of job N.""" try: return self.all[num].result except KeyError: error('Job #%s not found' % num) def _traceback(self, job): num = job if isinstance(job, int) else job.num try: self.all[num].traceback() except KeyError: error('Job #%s not found' % num) def traceback(self, job=None): if job is None: self._update_status() for deadjob in self.dead: print("Traceback for: %r" % deadjob) self._traceback(deadjob) print() else: self._traceback(job) class BackgroundJobBase(threading.Thread): """Base class to build BackgroundJob classes. The derived classes must implement: - Their own __init__, since the one here raises NotImplementedError. The derived constructor must call self._init() at the end, to provide common initialization. - A strform attribute used in calls to __str__. - A call() method, which will make the actual execution call and must return a value to be held in the 'result' field of the job object. """ # Class constants for status, in string and as numerical codes (when # updating jobs lists, we don't want to do string comparisons). This will # be done at every user prompt, so it has to be as fast as possible stat_created = 'Created'; stat_created_c = 0 stat_running = 'Running'; stat_running_c = 1 stat_completed = 'Completed'; stat_completed_c = 2 stat_dead = 'Dead (Exception), call jobs.traceback() for details' stat_dead_c = -1 def __init__(self): """Must be implemented in subclasses. Subclasses must call :meth:`_init` for standard initialisation. """ raise NotImplementedError("This class can not be instantiated directly.") def _init(self): """Common initialization for all BackgroundJob objects""" for attr in ['call','strform']: assert hasattr(self,attr), "Missing attribute <%s>" % attr # The num tag can be set by an external job manager self.num = None self.status = BackgroundJobBase.stat_created self.stat_code = BackgroundJobBase.stat_created_c self.finished = False self.result = '' # reuse the ipython traceback handler if we can get to it, otherwise # make a new one try: make_tb = get_ipython().InteractiveTB.text except: make_tb = AutoFormattedTB(mode = 'Context', color_scheme='NoColor', tb_offset = 1).text # Note that the actual API for text() requires the three args to be # passed in, so we wrap it in a simple lambda. self._make_tb = lambda : make_tb(None, None, None) # Hold a formatted traceback if one is generated. self._tb = None threading.Thread.__init__(self) def __str__(self): return self.strform def __repr__(self): return '' % (self.num, self.strform) def traceback(self): print(self._tb) def run(self): try: self.status = BackgroundJobBase.stat_running self.stat_code = BackgroundJobBase.stat_running_c self.result = self.call() except: self.status = BackgroundJobBase.stat_dead self.stat_code = BackgroundJobBase.stat_dead_c self.finished = None self.result = ('') self._tb = self._make_tb() else: self.status = BackgroundJobBase.stat_completed self.stat_code = BackgroundJobBase.stat_completed_c self.finished = True class BackgroundJobExpr(BackgroundJobBase): """Evaluate an expression as a background job (uses a separate thread).""" def __init__(self, expression, glob=None, loc=None): """Create a new job from a string which can be fed to eval(). global/locals dicts can be provided, which will be passed to the eval call.""" # fail immediately if the given expression can't be compiled self.code = compile(expression,'','eval') glob = {} if glob is None else glob loc = {} if loc is None else loc self.expression = self.strform = expression self.glob = glob self.loc = loc self._init() def call(self): return eval(self.code,self.glob,self.loc) class BackgroundJobFunc(BackgroundJobBase): """Run a function call as a background job (uses a separate thread).""" def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwargs): """Create a new job from a callable object. Any positional arguments and keyword args given to this constructor after the initial callable are passed directly to it.""" if not callable(func): raise TypeError( 'first argument to BackgroundJobFunc must be callable') self.func = func self.args = args self.kwargs = kwargs # The string form will only include the function passed, because # generating string representations of the arguments is a potentially # _very_ expensive operation (e.g. with large arrays). self.strform = str(func) self._init() def call(self): return self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)