from concurrent import futures

with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=5) as e:
  e.map(print, range(10))

# No output

Isn't this the supposed behavior?

I think that it surprising behavior, especially considering that asking for the *first* element in the iterator causes *all* of the futures to be created.

Got it. Seems the behavior is not consist with the Executor.map() function:

"The returned iterator raises a TimeoutError if __next__() is called and the result isn't available after timeout seconds from ***the original call to map()***"

Nice catch. I hadn't noticed that the docs are lying :-)

New changeset 126353bc7e94 by Brian Quinlan in branch 'default':
Issue #11777: Executor.map does not submit futures until iter.next() is called
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/126353bc7e94

Just a bystander remark: when you use present in the commit message and Misc/NEWS entry (like in “Executor.map does not submit futures until iter.next() is called”), I don’t know whether it is the behavior being fixed (“X used to do Y”) or the new, correct behavior (“X now does Z”).