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Multiprocessing Python code not working on Windows

The following naive absolute newbie code works at 100% on Ubuntu 14.04 (Python 2.7.6) and Cygwin (Python 2.7.8), but it hangs on Windows 64-bit (Python 2.7.8). I observed the same with other snippets using the multiprocessing package .

from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
from time import time

def WallisPi(N,out):    # Pi by the (slowly convergent) Wallis method.
    prod = 1.0
    for i in xrange(2,N,2):
        prod = prod*(i**2)/((i+1)**2)
    prod = 2.0e0*prod*(i+1)
    out.put(prod)
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    T = [15000000, 25000000, 30000000, 40000000]
    
    ti = time()
    
    q1 = Queue()
    p1 = Process(target=WallisPi, args=(T[0],q1))
    p1.start()
    
    q2 = Queue()
    p2 = Process(target=WallisPi, args=(T[1],q2))
    p2.start()

    q3 = Queue()
    p3 = Process(target=WallisPi, args=(T[2],q3))
    p3.start()

    q4 = Queue()
    p4 = Process(target=WallisPi, args=(T[3],q4))
    p4.start()
    
    p = [p1, p2, p3, p4]
    
    for item in p:
        item.join()

    q = [q1, q2, q3, q4]
    
    print "\n"
    
    Num = len(q)
    
    for i in range(0,Num):
        print "Pi at ",T[i], "terms = ", q[i].get()

    tf = time()
    print "\nElapsed time: ", round((tf-ti),2), " secs."
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I wonder what happened to this code?

Thanks a lot for any help.

Fausto

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Depending on how you start Python, you may need freeze_support

on Windows:

You need to call this function right after the line of the if __name__ == '__main__'

main module. For example:

from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support

def f():
    print 'hello world!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    freeze_support()
    Process(target=f).start()


See also Windows programming guidelines .

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