Am I not seeing the Error?

[MRAB]

On 13/08/2013 21:28, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:19:23 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
>
>> I am checking my 1292-line script for syntax errors. I ran the following
>> commands in a terminal to check for errors, but I do not see the error.
>
>> JOB_WRITEURGFILES =
>> multiprocessing.Process(write2file('./mem/ENGINE_PID', ENGINEPID);
>> write2file(SENTEMPPATH, ''); write2file(INPUTMEM, ''));
>> JOB_WRITEURGFILES.start()
>
> When I expand this out to one item per line,
>
> JOB_WRITEURGFILES =
> 	multiprocessing.Process
> 	(
> 		write2file
> 		(
> 			'./mem/ENGINE_PID'
> 			,
> 			ENGINEPID
> 		)
> 		;
> 		write2file
> 		(
> 			SENTEMPPATH
> 			,
> 			''
> 		)
> 		;
> 		write2file
> 		(
> 			INPUTMEM
> 			,
> 			''
> 		)
> 	)
> ;
> JOB_WRITEURGFILES.start()
>
> and I wonder (not being familiar with multiprocessing) if perhaps there
> should have been a third ";" after the third write2file in the job
> definition.
>
No, there shouldn't be _any_ semicolons.

Basically it should be something like:

     my_process = multiprocessing.Process(target=my_function)
     my_process.start()