Advanced Python Programming

The process class

In the multiprocessing module, processes are typically spawned and managed through the Process class. Each Process object represents an activity that executes in a separate process. Conveniently, the Process class has equivalent methods and APIs that can be found in the threading.Thread class.

Specifically, utilizing an object-oriented programming approach, the Process class from multiprocessing provides the following resources:

• run(): This method is executed when a new process is initialized and started
• start(): This method starts the initialized calling Process object by calling the run() method
• join(): This method waits for the calling Process object to terminate before continuing with the execution of the rest of the ...