just a template for myself

multiprocesstest.py

from multiprocessing import Process, Lock

def f(lock, name, number):
  for x in range(1,100):
		lock.acquire()
		print '%s: %i' % (name, x)
		lock.release()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	lock = Lock()
	for num in range(1,10):
		Process(target = f, args = (lock, 'thread', num)).start()