Hello I am trying to create multiple thread through the below program but I am getting an error
#! /usr/bin/python import os import subprocess import thread import threading from thread import start_new_thread def proc(f) : com1="ssh -B " com2=line.strip('\n') com3= " uname -a" co=str("ssh -B ")+ str(com2) + str(" uname -a") subprocess.call(co,shell=True) print "----------------------------" return f = open('/tmp/python/1') for line in f: t=thread.start_new_thread(proc(f),()) t.start() f.close() c = raw_input(" Type anything to quit") Execution output: Linux abc.myhomenetwork.com 2.6.18-348.25.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 06:32:45 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ---------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "./readfile1.py", line 19, in <module> t=thread.start_new_thread(proc(f),()) TypeError: first arg must be callable -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list