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Parallel LaTeXing with Python Threads

Based on an example from stackexchange I have created a small example on parallel TeX compilation.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on 2016-07-06
Uwe Ziegenhagen
based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16181121/python-very-simple-multithreading-parallel-url-fetching-without-queue
"""
 
from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
from time import time as timer
import os
 
files = ['test-01.tex','test-02.tex','test-03.tex','test-04.tex','test-05.tex',
'test-06.tex','test-07.tex','test-08.tex','test-09.tex','test-10.tex']
 
def compile_file(cfile):
	try:
		result = os.system('pdflatex -interaction=batchmode ' + cfile)
		return cfile, None
	except Exception as e:
		return cfile, e	
 
start = timer()
results = ThreadPool(8).imap_unordered(compile_file, files)
for cfile, error in results:
	if error is None:
		print("%r compiled in %ss" % (cfile, timer() - start))
	else:
		print("Error compiling %r: %s" % (cfile, error))
		print("Elapsed Time: %s" % (timer() - start,))
 
print('Gesamtzeit',timer() - start)

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