Python: Writing to a single file with queue while using multiprocessing Pool

I took the accepted answer and simplified it for my own understanding of how this works. I am posting it here in case it helps someone else.

import multiprocessing

def mp_worker(number):
    number += 1
    return number

def mp_handler():
    p = multiprocessing.Pool(32)
    numbers = list(range(1000))
    with open('results.txt', 'w') as f:
        for result in p.imap(mp_worker, numbers):
            f.write('%d\n' % result)

if __name__=='__main__':
    mp_handler()

Multiprocessing pools implement a queue for you. Just use a pool method that returns the worker return value to the caller. imap works well:

import multiprocessing 
import re

def mp_worker(filename):
    with open(filename) as f:
        text = f.read()
    m = re.findall("x+", text)
    count = len(max(m, key=len))
    return filename, count

def mp_handler():
    p = multiprocessing.Pool(32)
    with open('infilenamess.txt') as f:
        filenames = [line for line in (l.strip() for l in f) if line]
    with open('results.txt', 'w') as f:
        for result in p.imap(mp_worker, filenames):
            # (filename, count) tuples from worker
            f.write('%s: %d\n' % result)

if __name__=='__main__':
    mp_handler()