How to handle multiprocessing in python

multiprocessing_with_pool.py

### Thieu Nguyen (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thieu_Nguyen6)
### Excellent article here: https://medium.com/@urban_institute/using-multiprocessing-to-make-python-code-faster-23ea5ef996ba
import time
import multiprocessing

def basic_func(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 'zero'
    elif x % 2 == 0:
        return 'even'
    else:
        return 'odd'

def multiprocessing_func(x):
    y = x * x
    time.sleep(10)
    print('{} squared results in a/an {} number'.format(x, basic_func(y)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    starttime = time.time()
    pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
    pool.map(multiprocessing_func, range(0, 10))
    pool.close()
    print('That took {} seconds'.format(time.time() - starttime))

multiprocessing_with_process.py

### Thieu Nguyen (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thieu_Nguyen6)
### Excellent article here: https://medium.com/@urban_institute/using-multiprocessing-to-make-python-code-faster-23ea5ef996ba
import time
import multiprocessing

def basic_func(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 'zero'
    elif x % 2 == 0:
        return 'even'
    else:
        return 'odd'

def multiprocessing_func(x):
    y = x * x
    time.sleep(10)
    print('{} squared results in a/an {} number'.format(x, basic_func(y)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    starttime = time.time()
    processes = []
    for i in range(0, 10):
        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=multiprocessing_func, args=(i,))
        processes.append(p)
        p.start()

    for process in processes:
        process.join()

    print('That took {} seconds'.format(time.time() - starttime))

traditional_loop.py

### Thieu Nguyen (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thieu_Nguyen6)
### Excellent article here: https://medium.com/@urban_institute/using-multiprocessing-to-make-python-code-faster-23ea5ef996ba
import time

def basic_func(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 'zero'
    elif x % 2 == 0:
        return 'even'
    else:
        return 'odd'

starttime = time.time()
for i in range(0, 10):
    y = i * i
    time.sleep(10)
    print('{} squared results in a/an {} number'.format(i, basic_func(y)))

print('That took {} seconds'.format(time.time() - starttime))