multi-proccess-practice

import multiprocessing as mp
import os
import time, random

def f(x):
    b = x*x
    time.sleep(random.choice([5,8,10,14,20]))
    print "{0} procces id {1} with parent {2} doing {3}".format(mp.current_process(), os.getpid(), os.getppid(), x)
    return b

if __name__ == '__main__':
    p = mp.Pool(2)
    print(p.map(f, [1,2,3,4,5,6,82,819,1000]))


# Will try to extend this so that we can do start an interactive debugging session on
# any of the sub processes
# If the parent process dies, the child processes will still continue, but will be unable to
# send messages back to the parent which has died