Question related to multiprocessing.Process

[Cen Wang]

Thanks! It now works!
On Saturday, 19 January 2013 13:05:07 UTC+8, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Cen Wang <iwarobots at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi, when I use multiprocessing.Process in this way:
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> >
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> > from multiprocessing import Process
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> >
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> > class MyProcess(Process):
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> >
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> >     def __init__(self):
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> >         Process.__init__(self)
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> >
> 
> >     def run(self):
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> >         print 'x'
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> >
> 
> > p = MyProcess()
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> > p.start()
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> >
> 
> > It just keeps printing 'x' on my command prompt and does not end. But I think MyProcess should print an 'x' and then terminate. I don't why this is happening. I'm using Win7 64 bit, Python 2.7.3. Any idea? Thanks in advance.
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> 
> 
> Multiprocessing on Windows requires that your module be importable. So
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> it imports your main module, which instantiates another MyProcess,
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> starts it, rinse and repeat. You'll need to protect your main routine
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> code:
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> 
> 
> if __name__=="__main__":
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>     p = MyProcess()
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>     p.start()
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> 
> 
> ChrisA