Multiple instances of a python program

[Daniel Dittmar]

Rahul wrote:
> Hi.
> I am part of a group in my univ where we organize a programming
> contest. In this contest we have a UDP based server. The server
> simulates a game and each contestant is to develop a team of virtual
> players. Each team is composed of 75 similar bots...i.e. governed by
> the same logic. Thus the contestant submits a single copy of the client
> and we instantiate the same program 75 times at the same time.
> The problem is that while executables from C source files are small and
> we can make 75 processes but we dont know what to do with python.
> 
> If you have a python script and you want that 75 copies of the script
> be run simultaneously how will you do it? Is there anyway to do so
> without running 75 copies of the python interpreter simultaneously?
> 

The technical way would be to use threads.

Of course it could be that the rules of the game explicitly forbid that 
bots of a group communicate other than through the server. And it is 
easier to cheat there when you have only one Python program running.

Daniel