import sys
import os
import concurrent.futures

def load(path):
    if not os.path.exists(path):
        print(f"Error: {os.path.abspath(path)} does not exist.")
        sys.exit(1)
    print("Reading file...") 
    with open(path) as file:
        text = file.read()
    return text

txt = load("file.txt")

# Ensuring file was loaded in case of some lazy-handling
print(f"Text loaded was: '{txt}'")

os.makedirs("test_dir", exist_ok=True)
os.chdir('test_dir')

futures = []
with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor(5) as executor:
    for i in range(5):
        futures.append(executor.submit(print, txt))
concurrent.futures.wait(futures)