On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Laszlo Nagy <gand...@shopzeus.com> wrote: > On 2012-09-11 06:16, Dhananjay wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I have a python script in which I have a list of files to input one by one >> and for each file I get a number as an output. >> I used for loop to submit the file to script. >> My script uses one file at a time and returns the output. >> >> My computers has 8 cores. >> Is there any way that I could submit 8 jobs at a time and get all the >> output faster ? >> In other words, how can I modify my script so that I could submit 8 jobs >> together on 8 different processors ? >> >> I am bit new to this stuff, please suggest me some directions. > > You should first look at the multiprocessing module. It is part of the > standard library. > > http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
Or if Python 3.2 is an option, the concurrent.futures module would be very well suited for this task. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
