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Tests and Examples
==================

`processing` contains a `test` sub-package which contains unit tests
for the package.  You can do a test run by doing ::

    python -m processing.tests

on Python 2.5 or ::

    python -c "from processing.tests import main; main()"
 
on Python 2.4.  This will run many of the tests using processes,
threads, and processes with a manager.

The `example` sub-package contains the following modules:

     `ex_newtype.py <../examples/ex_newtype.py>`_
         Demonstration of how to create and use customized managers
         and proxies.

     `ex_pool.py <../examples/ex_pool.py>`_
         Test of the `Pool` class which represents a process pool.
      
     `ex_synchronize.py <../examples/ex_synchronize.py>`_
         Test of synchronization types like locks, conditions and queues.

     `ex_workers.py <../examples/ex_workers.py>`_
         A test showing how to use queues to feed tasks to a
         collection of worker process and collect the results.

     `ex_webserver.py <../examples/ex_webserver.py>`_
         An example of how a pool of worker processes can each 
         run a `SimpleHTTPServer.HttpServer` instance
         while sharing a single listening socket.

     `benchmarks.py <../examples/benchmarks.py>`_
         Some simple benchmarks comparing `processing` with `threading`.

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