On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Catherine Moroney <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > I would like to spawn off multiple instances of a function > and run them simultaneously and then wait until they all complete. > Currently I'm doing this by calling them as sub-processes > executable from the command-line. Is there a way of accomplishing > the same thing without having to make command-line executables > of the function call?
Try using the python standard threading module. Create multiple instances of Thread with target=your_function Maintain a list of these new Thread instnaces Join (wait) on them. pydoc threading.Thread cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
