Example 1 The use of multiprocessing.Pool
Program
from multiprocessing import Pool # with first alphebet capital
import os, time, random
# define the task function for processes
def run_task(name):
print('task {} (pid={}) is running '.format(name, os.getpid()))
#set the delay time for the process
time.sleep(random.random()*3) # annotation 1
print('task {} ends'.format(name))
# mian process
if __name__ == '__main__':
print('current process',os.getpid())# annotation 2
# construct the process pool of three processes
p=Pool(processes=3)# pay attention to 'processes'
# apply the 5 task funtions to the pool
for i in range(5):
p.apply_async(run_task,args=(str(i),))# annotation 3
print('waiting for all processes end')
# close the pool
p.close() # p.close() to excute the pool
# block the main process
p.join()
print('all processes end')
Output
current process 6780
waiting for all processes end
task 0 (pid=7576) is running
task 1 (pid=10112) is running
task 2 (pid=14572) is running
task 0 ends
task 3 (pid=7576) is running
task 2 ends
task 4 (pid=14572) is running
task 4 ends
task 1 ends
task 3 ends
all processes end
Annotation
1:(1)time.sleep(secs) delay the process by secs. (2)random.random() return x in the interval [0,1) .
2:(1) os.getpid() return the process id of the current process. (2) os.getppid() return the process id of the father process.
3: apply_async(func,args=(,)) apply funtion to the pool( there is no ‘target’ ).
Attention
1. Before join() there must a close(), when using Pool.