Multiple thread program problem

[M2]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 6:56:47 PM UTC-5, sohca... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 4:45:52 PM UTC-7, M2 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:34:31 PM UTC-5, Waffle wrote:
> > > You think "(f)" makes a tuple, but it does not.
> > > the parentesis is not the tuple constructor, the comma is
> > > try:
> > > t=thread.start_new_thread(proc,(f,))
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer waffle.
> > The program executes now but still not the way I want it.
> > I think I will need to tweak it a bit as the code is executing with the same argument from the file /tmp/python/1 multiple times whereas it needs to be executed only ones but in parallel. Let me figure that out.
> > 
> > 
> > Once again thanks for all the help provided on this thread.
> 
> Check your usages of "line" and "f".  You have spots where you probably meant "line" instead of "f", and others where you have "f" where you probably meant "line".

Here is my logic:
f is where the entire file is getting loaded
which is also passed as argument in the function proc
line has a single line from the file which is then stripped off the new line character and assigned to com2 variable which helps in using it in the subprocess.call