multiprocessing: child process share changes to global variable

[Jason Friedman]

> #--------------- temp.py -------------------------
> #run at Python 2.7 command prompt
> import time
> import multiprocessing as mp
> lst = []
> lstlst = []
>
> def alist(x):
>     lst.append(x)
>     lstlst.append(lst)
>     print "a"
>     return lst
>
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     pool = mp.Pool(3)
>     print pool.map(alist,range(3)) #UNEXPECTED RESULTS
>     print "b"
>     time.sleep(0.1)
>
> print "c"
> print lst
> print lstlst
> --

I get several different results:

$ for i in {1..1000}; do
> python2.7 temp.py | md5sum >> result
> done

$ wc -l result
1000 result

$ sort result | uniq | wc -l
9