How can I use threading in Python?

Question

I am trying to understand threading in Python. I\'ve looked at the documentation and examples, but quite frankly, many examples are overly sophisticated and I\'m having trou

Answer 1

None of the previous solutions actually used multiple cores on my GNU/Linux server (where I don't have administrator rights). They just ran on a single core.

I used the lower level os.fork interface to spawn multiple processes. This is the code that worked for me:

from os import fork

values = ['different', 'values', 'for', 'threads']

for i in range(len(values)):
    p = fork()
    if p == 0:
        my_function(values[i])
        break