Python multiprocessing on Python 2.6 Win32 (xp)

Question

I tried to copy this example from this Multiprocessing lecture by jesse noller (as recommended in another SO post)[http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947354?filename=Pycon-IntroductionT

Answer 1

Seems from the traceback that you are running the code directly into the python interpreter (REPL).

Don't do that. Save the code in a file and run it from the file instead, with the command:

python myfile.py

That will solve your issue.

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As an unrelated note, this line is wrong:

print 'Sleeping for ' + wait + ' seconds'

It should be:

print 'Sleeping for %d seconds' % (wait,)

Because you can't concatenate string and int objects (python is strongly typed)