CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

multiprocessing a for loop python

from multiprocessing import Pool

def process_image(name):
    sci=fits.open('{}.fits'.format(name))
    <process>

if __name__ == '__main__':
    pool = Pool()                         # Create a multiprocessing Pool
    pool.map(process_image, data_inputs)  # process data_inputs iterable with pool