Global variables problem

Daniel da Silva ddasilva at umd.edu
Wed Aug 4 00:16:51 EDT 2010


Please post approximate code that actually works and displays the problem.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Navkirat Singh <navkirats at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I am using a multiprocessing program, where the new process is supposed to
> change a variable in the main class that it branches out from. This is
> somehow not working, following is an approximate code. Would really
> appreciate any insight into this matter:
>
>
> var = {}
>
> class Something():
>
>        def set_var(self):
>                global var
>                var = somevalue
>
>        def get_var(self):
>                return var
>
>        def newprocess(self):
>                self.set_var()
>
>        def do_multiprocessing(self):
>                while true:
>                        self.get_var()
>                        new_process = process(target=newprocess)
>                        new_process.start()
>
>
> I am really confused here !
>
> Any help would be awesome : )
>
> Regards,
> Nav
>
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