Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.044 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.91; '*S*': 0.00; 'mrab': 0.05; 'collier': 0.09; 'subject:Python3': 0.09; 'threads.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'command': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'instance,': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'possibly': 0.26; 'this:': 0.26; 'skip:" 20': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'received:10.0.0': 0.31; 'skip:m 30': 0.32; 'created': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'johnson': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'complete.': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'possible': 0.36; 'received:10.0': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'actions': 0.38; 'depends': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'subject:skip:M 10': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uUwEkrY+2T3K7Vexa+17lMKkmPMWgstf8Z3sSGAQn+A=; b=QJSqG1DYlo4gvXpTO09FRFIQ23VPWugzxZntMDJcXTvwLhkIFQJY7VMExUYPR6Lxpa j4tZPGHAjB8DJRmibEIagVQZKNWGdqzSIYJndRhIIVgvergBI0IwLKprv/NYTP/EAK7T oqQbMB6i4fcyFuXo8ZLm3lPjnd8iOBfOj+SDWvIPDK02TGzWSo5PkzTshHuZkFja26yf FvM+1Y5fXn36IJorPx7eF2lGWJ2sO4WtrgSE1aq3aTNPQtU4d2X2wtiaZpBdV/dHi4M+ bTk5TSUUvR+sAXLTPnScduK/U2RwKn5LIlbeATWClwYRkqmZm2dxfNWC7ZoDsxCZiTQ4 pQnA== X-Received: by 10.60.15.106 with SMTP id w10mr1989663oec.82.1376081019353; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:43:36 -0400 From: Devyn Collier Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Python3 Multiprocessing References: <5205435D.5090704@Gmail.com> <520546A2.50900@mrabarnett.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <520546A2.50900@mrabarnett.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1376081022 news.xs4all.nl 15929 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38982 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:52272 On 08/09/2013 03:44 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 09/08/2013 20:30, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: >> Aloha! >> >> I need a command that will make threads created by >> "multiprocessing.Process()" wait for each other to complete. For >> instance, I want to do something like this: >> >> job1 = multiprocessing.Process(CMD1()) >> job2 = multiprocessing.Process(CMD2()) >> >> jobs1.start(); jobs2.start() >> >> PY_FUNC() >> >> The command "PY_FUNC()" depends on the end result of the actions of >> CMD1() and CMD2(). I need some kind of wait command for the two threads >> that will not let the script continue until job1 and job2 are complete. >> Is this possible in Python3? >> > Possibly you mean .join: > > jobs1.start() > jobs2.start() > > jobs1.join() > jobs2.join() > Thanks MRAB! That is easy. I always (incorrectly) thought the join() command got two threads and made them one. I did not know it made the script wait for the threads. Mahalo, DevynCJohnson@Gmail.com