multiprocessing and Locks

[gvv]

Hi All,

I am trying to understand multiprocessing, but I am getting a Runtime
error on the
code below. What am I missing or doing wrong?
Error is:
RuntimeError: Lock objects should only be shared between processes
through inheritance

I am using:
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Nov 28 2008, 22:17:21)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2

Thanks in Advance,
George


import multiprocessing
import time

class Base(object):
    def __init__(self, id, lock):
        self.Id = id
        lock.acquire()
        self.Sleep()
        lock.release()

    def Run(self):
        pass

    def Sleep(self):
        time.sleep(5)

class Derived(Base):
    def __init__(self, id, lock):
        Base.__init__(self, id, lock)

    def Run(self):
        print self.Id

def RunFunc(id, lock):
    obj = Derived(id, lock)
    obj.Run()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    lock = multiprocessing.Lock()
    Pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=5)
    for i in xrange(100):
        Pool.apply_async(func=RunFunc, args=(i,lock))