More documentation changes but includes a change to config.py that

[pyutils.git] / src / pyutils / remote_worker.py

diff --git a/src/pyutils/remote_worker.py b/src/pyutils/remote_worker.py
index cd6e4d6bdac48a47028ff26bbc1639a753276506..630d7e035fd414b166a1dda358ffd6aa430a70cd 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/pyutils/remote_worker.py
+++ b/src/pyutils/remote_worker.py
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 
 """A simple utility to unpickle some code, run it, and pickle the
 results.  Please don't unpickle (or run!) code you do not know.
 
 """A simple utility to unpickle some code, run it, and pickle the
 results.  Please don't unpickle (or run!) code you do not know.

+
+This script is used by code in parallelize, namely the
+:class:`RemoteExecutor`, to schedule work on a remote machine.
+The code in :file:`parallelize.py` uses a user-defined configuration
+to schedule work this way.  See that file for setup instructions.

 """
 
 import logging
 """
 
 import logging


@@ -92,7 +97,9 @@ def cleanup_and_exit(
 @bootstrap.initialize
 def main() -> None:
     in_file = config.config['code_file']
 @bootstrap.initialize
 def main() -> None:
     in_file = config.config['code_file']

+    assert in_file and type(in_file) == str

     out_file = config.config['result_file']
     out_file = config.config['result_file']

+    assert out_file and type(out_file) == str

 
     thread = None
     stop_thread = None
 
     thread = None
     stop_thread = None