[Tutor] threading not working how about fork?

[Ertl, John C CIV 63134]

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Thanks for the help and I am looking into the pyprocessing but threading is causing too many headaches (I may have to rewrite things).  Lets say I have something as simple as below:

def takeTime(a):
     print "Started %s" % a
     time.sleep(10)
     print "Ended %s" % a

for each in [1,2,3,4,5]:
   pid = os.fork()
   takeTime(each)

Each time the function is called it waits 10 seconds.  And if I run it as above it does the first and waits 10 seconds then the second and waits ten seconds...etc.

Wow could I get it to run through all 5 "forks" without waiting for the previous one to complete?  That was all five would be done in about 10 seconds.

This is simpler than my real problem but I can not even figure this one out. 

Thanks for the help.

John Ertl
Meteorologist

FNMOC
7 Grace Hopper Ave.
Monterey, CA 93943
(831) 656-5704
john.ertl at navy.mil

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