I am attempting to use a partial function so that pool.map() can target a function that has more than one parameter (in this case a Lock() object). Here is example code (taken from an answer to a previous question of mine): from functools import partial def target(lock, iterable_item): for item in items: # Do cool stuff if (... some condition here ...): lock.acquire() # Write to stdout or logfile,
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