Summary
In this chapter, we saw a variety of useful features provided by IPython. While no single feature is of game-changing importance, each provides the right tool for its job.
IPython's timing utilities, whether through the utils.timing or the timeit and prun magics, provide a quick and easy way to measure application performance.
The AsyncResult class provides more than a variety of different methods of obtaining results from asynchronous jobs. Metadata about the results is also available, allowing the developer to access important information such as when a job was started and its error status.
Given this data about jobs, the Client class provides access to job-control functionality. In particular, queues can be accessed and jobs and engines ...
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