Pool within a Class in Python

Question

I would like to use Pool within a class, but there seems to be a problem. My code is long, I created a small-demo variant to illustrated the problem. It would be great if you can give me a variant of the code below that works.

from multiprocessing import Pool

class SeriesInstance(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.numbers = [1,2,3]
    def F(self, x):
        return x * x
    def run(self):
        p = Pool()
        print p.map(self.F, self.numbers)


ins = SeriesInstance()
ins.run()

Outputs:

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 319, in _handle_tasks
    put(task)
PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'instancemethod'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.instancemethod failed

And then hangs.

Answer 1

You can also use multiprocessing with static functions in the class.