I tried your example & its working fine. Thanks *In script Editor* import subprocess import cPickle
mayapy_path = r'C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya201x/bin/mayapy.exe' script_path = r'E:/multi_test.py' proc_obj = subprocess.Popen(mayapy_path + ' ' + script_path + ' -po', stdin= subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) result = cPickle.load(proc_obj.stdout) print result *multi_test.py* import multiprocessing from time import time import cPickle import sys ## Simple func to eat up cpu power. def whileFunc(z): while z < 100000: z += 1 return z if __name__ == "__main__": ## Get current time currtime = time() ## How often to run (just a test value) N = 10000 ## Just a list with 1s myList = [1]*N nrOfProcessors = multiprocessing.cpu_count() ## Set our pool of processors po = multiprocessing.Pool(nrOfProcessors) ## create the threads res = po.map_async(whileFunc, myList) ## If we pass a -po flag, pickle the output and write it out if '-po' in sys.argv[1:]: results = len(res.get()) cPickle.dump(results, sys.stdout, -1) sys.stdout.flush() sys.exit(0) print 'This value below should be a 1000:' print len(res.get()) print 'time elapsed:', time() - currtime -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/2f4122d0-ff64-4ba9-8bfa-71e7bad7f0f7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.