How to pin different processes to individual cpu cores in Python

Question

I\'m writing a Python program that will load a wordlist from a text file and then try unzipping an archive with each word. It wouldn\'t be serious if it didn\'t make use of

Answer 1

You can use Pythons multiprocessing by importing import multiprocessing as mp and find out the number of processors by using mp.cpu_count() and should work on most platforms.

To launch programs/processes on specific CPU cores (in linux) you can use taskset and use this guide as a reference.

An alternative cross-plattform solution would be to use the psutil package for python.

However i would suggest you go with a thread/process pooling approach as in my opinion you should let the operating system assign tasks to each cpu/core. You can look at How to utilize all cores with python multiprocessing on how to approach this problem.