inpKeywordHelper

Module Contents

This module contains functions meant to assist with creating inpKeyword blocks in parallel. This process is not currently providing much performance benefit (perhaps a 25% speedup when running with 4 cores vs. single core), so its usage is not recommended.

inpKeywordHelper.inpKeywordInit(rawstringsin, Args)

Initializes variables needed in each process when parsing keywords in parallel.

Parameters:

  • rawstringsin (list) – A list of strings. Each string should correspond to the text of an entire keyword block. The list will be turned into a global variable for the subprocesses.

  • Args (dict) – Each item in Args will be converted to a global variable. This should be set to inpKeywordArgs in most cases.

inpKeywordHelper.inpKeywordHelper(num)

Creates an inpKeyword for rawstrings[num], referencing the items passed to inpKeywordInit() via Args.

Parameters:

num (int) – An integer representing the item from rawstrings on which to operate.