Module misc

The non-public module for storing the API functions and classes of the multi-processor package.

This is for internal use only. To access the multi-processor API, see the __init__ module.

Classes

Capturing_exception
A wrapper exception for an exception captured on a slave processor.

Result
A basic result object returned from a slave processor via return_object.

Result_string
A simple result from a slave containing a result.

Verbosity
A special singleton structure for changing the verbosity level on the fly.

Functions

list of class module instances or None import_module(module_path)
Import the python module named by module_path.

raise_unimplemented(method)
Standard function for raising NotImplementedError for unimplemented abstract methods.

Variables

__package__ = 'multi'

Imports: importlib, sys, traceback, textwrap

Function Details

import_module(module_path)

Import the python module named by module_path.

Parameters:

• module_path (str) - A module path in python dot separated format. Note: this currently doesn't support relative module paths as defined by pep328 and python 2.5.

Returns: list of class module instances or None

The module path as a list of module instances or None if the module path cannot be found in the python path.

raise_unimplemented(method)

Standard function for raising NotImplementedError for unimplemented abstract methods.

Parameters:

• method (class method) - The method which should be abstract.

Raises:

• NotImplementedError - A not implemented exception with the method name as a parameter.