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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