bpo-27873: Update docstring for multiprocessing.Pool.map (GH-17436)

miss-islington · aisk · web-flow · commit baf07395eaa7 · 2019-12-03T15:37:40.000-08:00
Update docstring for `multiprocessing.Pool.map` to mention `pool.starmap()`. Prev PR: #17367 @aeros https://bugs.python.org/issue27873 (cherry picked from commit eb48a45) Co-authored-by: An Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -2169,7 +2169,8 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class.
    .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize])
 
       A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` built-in function (it supports only
-      one *iterable* argument though).  It blocks until the result is ready.
+      one *iterable* argument though, for multiple iterables see :meth:`starmap`).
+      It blocks until the result is ready.
 
       This method chops the iterable into a number of chunks which it submits to
       the process pool as separate tasks.  The (approximate) size of these
