I am using a basic multiprocessing snippet I found: #----------------------------------------------------- from multiprocessing import Pool
def f(x): return x*x if __name__ == '__main__': pool = Pool(processes=4) # start 4 worker processes result = pool.apply_async(f, [10]) # evaluate "f(10)" asynchronously print result.get(timeout=1) print pool.map(f, range(10)) # prints "[0, 1, 4,..., 81]" #--------------------------------------------------------- I am using this code to have each process go off and solve the same problem, just with different inputs to the problem. I need to be able to kill all processes once 1 of n processes has come up with the solution. There will only be one answer. I have tried: sys.exit(0) #this causes the program to hang pool.close() pool.terminate These still allow further processing before the program terminates. What else can I try? I am not able to share the exact code at this time. I can provide more detail if I am unclear. Thank you -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list