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Discardable distributed job
from multiprocessing import Process, Manager, Event
from random import randint
children_count = 5
block_size = 10000
def find(my_id, found):
print("Process with id %s has been started" % my_id)
left = block_size * my_id
right = left + block_size
while not found.is_set():
k = randint(left, right)
if (k == 20023):
print("Fucking found it!!!!(Process %s)" % my_id)
found.set()
if __name__ == "__main__":
sync_manager = Manager()
found = sync_manager.Event()
processes = []
for i in range(0, children_count):
p = Process(target=find, args=(i, found))
p.start()
processes.append(p)
found.wait()
print("Finished")
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