concurrent.futures isn't really _another_ parallel library... its just the standard libraries higher level interface to both the multiprocessing and threading

concurrent.futures isn't really _another_ parallel library... its just the standard libraries higher level interface to both the multiprocessing and threading modules. See the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/