Merge pull request #116 from sciris/fix-parallelize

Fix shared object bug in parallization

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 By import convention, components of the Sciris library are listed beginning with `sc.`, e.g. `sc.odict()`.
 
+## Version 0.17.3 (2020-07-21)
+1. `sc.parallelize()` now explicitly deep-copies objects, since on some platforms this copying does not take place as part of the parallelization process.
+
 ## Version 0.17.2 (2020-07-13)
 1. `sc.search()` is a new function to find nested attributes/keys within objects or dictionaries.
 

sciris/sc_parallel.py

@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ def parallel_task(taskargs, outputqueue=None):
     ''' Task called by parallelize() -- not to be called directly '''
 
     # Handle inputs
+    taskargs = ut.dcp(taskargs)
     func   = taskargs.func
     index  = taskargs.index
     args   = taskargs.args

sciris/sc_version.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 __all__ = ['__version__', '__versiondate__', '__license__']
 
-__version__      = '0.17.2'
-__versiondate__  = '2020-07-13'
+__version__      = '0.17.3'
+__versiondate__  = '2020-07-21'
 __license__      = 'Sciris %s (%s) -- (c) Sciris.org' % (__version__, __versiondate__)