[SciPy-User] Parallel processing

[Pauli Virtanen]

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:19:07 +0100, Nils Wagner wrote:
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> I would like to parallelize a number of calls to mycmd
> 
> nproc denotes the number of processes .
> 
> for i in range(nproc):
> 
>      try:
>          retcode = call("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True) if retcode < 0:
>              print >>sys.stderr, "Child was terminated by
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> How can I manage that with python ?

For example, use `subprocess.Popen` to spawn the processes to the 
background.

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Pauli Virtanen