How to use multiprocessing pool.map with multiple arguments?

Question

In the Python multiprocessing library, is there a variant of pool.map which supports multiple arguments?

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Answer 1

Using Python 3.3+ with pool.starmap():

from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool 

def write(i, x):
    print(i, "---", x)

a = ["1","2","3"]
b = ["4","5","6"] 

pool = ThreadPool(2)
pool.starmap(write, zip(a,b)) 
pool.close() 
pool.join()

Result:

1 --- 4
2 --- 5
3 --- 6

You can also zip() more arguments if you like: zip(a,b,c,d,e)

In case you want to have a constant value passed as an argument you have to use import itertools and then zip(itertools.repeat(constant), a) for example.