Best way to output concurrent task results in shell on the go
Question:
That is maybe a very basic question, and I can think of solutions, but I wondered if there is a more elegant one I don’t know of (quick googling didn’t bring anything useful).
I wrote a script to communicate to a remote device. However, now that I have more than one of that type, I thought I just make the communication in concurrent futures and handle it simultaneously:
with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(20) as executor:
executor.map(device_ctl, ids, repeat(args))
So it just calls up to 20 threads of device_ctl with respective IDs and the same args. device_ctl is now printing some results, but since they all run in parallel, it gets mixed up and looks messy. Ideally I could have 1 line per ID that shows the current state of the communication and gets updated once it changes, e.g.:
Dev1 Connecting...
Dev2 Connected! Status: Idle
Dev3 Connected! Status: Updating
However, I don’t really know how to solve it nicely. I can think of a status list that outside of the threads gets assembled into one status string, which gets frequently updated. But it feels like there could be a simpler method! Ideas?
Answers:
Since there was no good answer, I made my own solution, which is quite compact but efficient. I define a class that I call globally. Each thread populates it or updates a value based on its ID. The ID is meant to be the same list entry as taken for the thread. Here I made a simple example how to use it:
class collect:
ids = []
outs = []
LINE_UP = "
That is maybe a very basic question, and I can think of solutions, but I wondered if there is a more elegant one I don’t know of (quick googling didn’t bring anything useful).
I wrote a script to communicate to a remote device. However, now that I have more than one of that type, I thought I just make the communication in concurrent futures and handle it simultaneously:
with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(20) as executor:
executor.map(device_ctl, ids, repeat(args))
So it just calls up to 20 threads of device_ctl with respective IDs and the same args. device_ctl is now printing some results, but since they all run in parallel, it gets mixed up and looks messy. Ideally I could have 1 line per ID that shows the current state of the communication and gets updated once it changes, e.g.:
Dev1 Connecting...
Dev2 Connected! Status: Idle
Dev3 Connected! Status: Updating
However, I don’t really know how to solve it nicely. I can think of a status list that outside of the threads gets assembled into one status string, which gets frequently updated. But it feels like there could be a simpler method! Ideas?
Since there was no good answer, I made my own solution, which is quite compact but efficient. I define a class that I call globally. Each thread populates it or updates a value based on its ID. The ID is meant to be the same list entry as taken for the thread. Here I made a simple example how to use it:
class collect:
ids = []
outs = []
LINE_UP = "