Process method 1.p.start () # boot process 2.p.run () # method of operation, when the process starts, it is to call the target function specified custom class must implement this method 3.p.terminate () # forcibly terminate the process p, will not carry out any cleaning operation, if p create a child process, the child process to become a zombie process. If p then also saved a lock will not be released, leading to a deadlock 4.p.is_alive () # If p is still running and returns True 5.p.join () # main thread waits for termination of p, p. join can only join live start open process, and can not join the live run open process Process properties 1.p.daemon # The default is False, if set to True, the representative for the p * * daemon running in the background, when the termination of the parent process p, p also will be terminated, and after setting True, you can not create p his new process must be set in p.start () before 2.p.name # name of the process 3.p.pid # process pid 4.p.exitcode # process at runtime None 5.p.authkey # the process of authentication keys * * Daemon : 1 . Code Execution of the parent process ends, the daemon is over 2 are not allowed to open sub-processes. 3 if not join, if daemon is the last position in the parent process code, then the parent process has no code. , so the daemon will not be able to perform. # ###################################### simple example from multiprocessing Import Process Import Time DEF FUNC ( ): time.sleep(1) print(123) if __name__ == '__main__': p = Process(target=func,) p.start() p.terminate () # kill process p, let the interpreter tells the operating system, please kill the p process. Print ( ' the child was still alive? ' , p.is_alive ()) the time.sleep ( 0.002 ) Print ( ' the child was still alive? ' , p.is_alive ()) # returns a bool value, if it returns True, the representative of the process is still alive, if it returns False, the representative of the child dead # P.is_alive () to determine whether the process is still alive p # p.terminate () to kill the p process