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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>> What if you want to dynamically construct a callable and send it to
>> another process?
> I'm not sure what that would actually mean. Do you try to construct it
> out of code that already exists in the other process? Are you passing
> actual code to the other process?

I gave an example in a reply to Steven, something like

  other_thread_queue.put(lambda x: x*x)

to tell the other thread it is supposed to square something.  It
receives a callable and calls it in its own context.