Python Multiprocessing Kill Processes

Question

I am learning how to use the Python multiprocessing library. However, while I am going through some of the examples, I ended up with many python processes running in my back

Answer 1

You need to .join() on your processes in a worker Queue, which will lock them to the calling application until all of them succeed or kill when the parent is killed, and run them in daemon mode.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=94726

end daemon processes with multiprocessing module

http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#the-process-class

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/#correct-daemon-behaviour