I am trying to use the multiprocessing inside a class but I keep on getting error.
What am I doing:
class A:
def GetData(self,scripts,scriptcounter):
if __name__ == '__main__':
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=GetScriptsData,args=[scripts,scriptcounter])
p.start()
p.join(15)
if p.is_alive():
print('Request Terminated as it exceeded the hard wait time.')
p.terminate()
p.join()
def GetScriptsData(self,Scripts,ScriptStarter):
.....> This function calls the source to fetch data.
Here, I am trying to get scripts data using multi-processing because sometimes my source response gets stuck. So, I am adding a cut-off time on the data download process.
The error I get is:
ipdb> p = multiprocessing.Process(target=GetScriptsData,args=[scripts,scriptcounter])
*** SyntaxError: invalid syntax
OR
ipdb> p = multiprocessing.Process(target=self.GetScriptsData,args=[scripts,scriptcounter])
*** SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I tried with self too but no success.
Any suggestions where I am going wrong.
Thanks in advance.