In Python the multiprocessing module can be used to run a function over a range of values in parallel. For example, this produces a list of the first 100000 evaluations of f.
def f(i):
return i * i
def main():
import multiprocessing
pool = multiprocessing.Pool(2)
ans = pool.map(f, range(100000))
return ans
Can a similar thing be done when f takes multiple inputs but only one variable is varied? For example, how would you parallelize this:
def f(i, n):
return i * i + 2*n
def main():
ans = []
for i in range(100000):
ans.append(f(i, 20))
return ans
解决方案
There are several ways to do this. In the example given in the question, you could just define a wrapper function
def g(i):
return f(i, 20)
and pass this wrapper to map(). A more general approach is to have a wrapper that takes a single tuple argument and unpacks the tuple to multiple arguments
def g(tup):
return f(*tup)
or use a equivalent lambda expression: lambda tup: f(*tup).