Executing multiple functions simultaneously

I'm trying to run two functions simultaneously in Python. I have tried the below code which uses multiprocessing but when I execute the code, the second function starts only after the first is done.

from multiprocessing import Process
def func1:
     #does something

def func2:
     #does something

if __name__=='__main__':
     p1 = Process(target = func1)
     p1.start()
     p2 = Process(target = func2)
     p2.start()

You are doing it correctly. :)

Try running this silly piece of code:

from multiprocessing import Process
import sys

rocket = 0

def func1():
    global rocket
    print('start func1')
    while rocket < sys.maxsize:
        rocket += 1
    print('end func1')

def func2():
    global rocket
    print('start func2')
    while rocket < sys.maxsize:
        rocket += 1
    print('end func2')

if __name__=='__main__':
    p1 = Process(target=func1)
    p1.start()
    p2 = Process(target=func2)
    p2.start()

You will see it print 'start func1' and then 'start func2' and then after a (very) long time you will finally see the functions end. But they will indeed execute simultaneously.

Because processes take a while to start up, you may even see 'start func2' before 'start func1'.