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Unidist on PyMp
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This section describes the use of unidist with the Python Multiprocessing execution backend.

There are two ways to choose the execution backend to run on.
First, by setting the ``UNIDIST_BACKEND`` environment variable:

.. code-block:: bash

    # unidist will use Python Multiprocessing backend
    $ export UNIDIST_BACKEND=pymp

.. code-block:: python

    import os

    # unidist will use Python Multiprocessing backend
    os.environ["UNIDIST_BACKEND"] = "pymp"

Second, by setting the configuration value associated with the environment variable:

.. code-block:: python

    from unidist.config import Backend

    Backend.put("pymp")  # unidist will use Python Multiprocessing backend

For more information on the environment variables and associated configs specific to the Python Multiprocessing backend
see :doc:`config API </flow/unidist/config>` section.