Multiprocessing Pool and functions with many arguments

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:01 PM, psaffrey at googlemail.com
<psaffrey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get to grips with the multiprocessing module, having
> only used ParallelPython before.
>
> based on this example:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#using-a-pool-of-workers
>
> what happens if I want my "f" to take more than one argument? I want
> to have a list of tuples of arguments and have these correspond the
> arguments in f, but it keeps complaining that I only have one argument
> (the tuple). Do I have to pass in a tuple and break it up inside f? I
> can't use multiple input lists, as I would with regular map.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter

Perhaps these articles will help you:

http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/multiprocessing/communication.html#pool-map
http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/multiprocessing/mapreduce.html#simplemapreduce

jesse