How do you know they are not run in parallel? Note that your program will print"Done" after every thread is started. To print when they are done, use something like
import multiprocessing
import time
files = ["path/to/file1.py","path/to/file2.py",
"path/to/file3.py","path/to/file4.py",
"path/to/file5.py"]
process_list=[]
for item in files:
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=my_function, args=(item,))
p.start()
process_list.append(p)
still_alive=True
while still_alive:
print("-"*50)
still_alive=False
for p in process_list:
if p.is_alive():
still_alive=True
print(p)
time.sleep(0.2)
p.join()
print("finished")
