Python Language Tutorial => Sharing State Between Processes

Example

Code running in different processes do not, by default, share the same data. However, the multiprocessing module contains primitives to help share values across multiple processes.

import multiprocessing

plain_num = 0
shared_num = multiprocessing.Value('d', 0)
lock = multiprocessing.Lock()

def increment():
    global plain_num
    with lock:
        # ordinary variable modifications are not visible across processes
        plain_num += 1
        # multiprocessing.Value modifications are
        shared_num.value += 1

ps = [multiprocessing.Process(target=increment) for n in range(4)]
for p in ps:
    p.start()
for p in ps:
    p.join()

print("plain_num is %d, shared_num is %d" % (plain_num, shared_num.value))

# Out: plain_num is 0, shared_num is 4

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