Writing to a file with multiprocessing

I'm having the following problem in python.

I need to do some calculations in parallel whose results I need to be written sequentially in a file. So I created a function that receives a multiprocessing.Queue and a file handle, do the calculation and print the result in the file:

import multiprocessing
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
from mySimulation import doCalculation   

# doCalculation(pars) is a function I must run for many different sets of parameters and collect the results in a file

def work(queue, fh):
while True:
    try:
        parameter = queue.get(block = False)
        result = doCalculation(parameter) 
        print >>fh, string
    except:
        break


if __name__ == "__main__":
    nthreads = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
    fh = open("foo", "w")
    workQueue = Queue()
    parList = # list of conditions for which I want to run doCalculation()
    for x in parList:
        workQueue.put(x)
    processes = [Process(target = writefh, args = (workQueue, fh)) for i in range(nthreads)]
    for p in processes:
       p.start()
    for p in processes:
       p.join()
    fh.close()

But the file ends up empty after the script runs. I tried to change the worker() function to:

def work(queue, filename):
while True:
    try:
        fh = open(filename, "a")
        parameter = queue.get(block = False)
        result = doCalculation(parameter) 
        print >>fh, string
        fh.close()
    except:
        break

and pass the filename as parameter. Then it works as I intended. When I try to do the same thing sequentially, without multiprocessing, it also works normally.

Why it didn't worked in the first version? I can't see the problem.

Also: can I guarantee that two processes won't try to write the file simultaneously?

EDIT:

Thanks. I got it now. This is the working version: