running script multiple times simultaniously in python 2.7

Question

Hello I am trying to run a script multiple times but would like this to take place at the same time from what I understood i was to use subprocess and threading together howev

Answer 1

Personally, I'd use multiprocessing. I'd write a function that takes a filename and does whatever the main guts of execution does (probably by importing execution and running some function within it):

import multiprocessing
import execution
import datetime

#assume we have a function:
#exection.run_main_with_args(filename,name,today_str,dbfolder)

today = datetime.datetime.today()
def my_execute(filename):
    if '.htm' in filename:
       name = filename.strip('.htm')
       dbfolder = "C:/newscript/db/" + name
       os.makedirs(dbfolder)
       execution.run_main_with_args(filename,name,str(today),dbfolder)

p = multiprocessing.Pool()
p.map(my_execute,list_of_files_to_process)