On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Massi <massi_...@msn.com> wrote:
> in my script (python 2.5 on windows xp) I need to run a simple
> function in a separate process. In other words I need something
> similar to the fork function under UNIX. I tried with threads:
Use the new multiprocesing package.
> import os, threading
>
> def func(s) :
> print "I'm thread number "+s, os.getpid()
>
> threading.Thread(target=func, args=("1",)).start()
> threading.Thread(target=func, args=("2",)).start()
Like this:
import multiprocessing
multiprocessing.Process(target=func, args=("1",)).start()
multiprocessing.Process(target=func, args=("2",)).start()
...
Surprise surprise it has almost the same API
as the threading module :)
--James
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