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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. ("CableLabs")
+#                    and others.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
+
+_pool = None
+
+
+# Define a thread pool with a limit for how many simultaneous API requests
+# can be in progress at once.
+def worker_pool(size=5):
+    global _pool
+    if _pool is None:
+        _pool = ThreadPool(processes=size)
+    return _pool