I am trying to update one common dictionary through multiple processes. Could you please help me find out what is the problem with this code? I get the following output:

inside function
{1: 1, 2: -1}
comes here
inside function
{1: 0, 2: 2}
comes here
{1: 0, 2: -1}

Thanks.

from multiprocessing import Lock, Process, Manager

l= Lock()


def computeCopyNum(test,val):
    l.acquire()
    test[val]=val
    print "inside function"
    print test
    l.release()
    return

a=dict({1: 0, 2: -1})

procs=list()

for i in range(1,3):
    p = Process(target=computeCopyNum, args=(a,i))
    procs.append(p)
    p.start()

for p in procs:
p.join()
    print "comes here"

print a