On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:

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Currently, multiprocessing cannot be imported:

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import multiprocessing Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/gbr/devel/python/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 63, in <module> import _multiprocessing AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BufferTooShort'

The test suite passes (at least for some buildbots) because it imports _multiprocessing first, which then in its init function imports multiprocessing to get the BufferTooShort exception.

I fixed it by moving the _multiprocessing import below the exception definitions.

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Since BufferTooShort and other exceptions inheriting from ProcessError are simple derived exceptions, why aren't they created in the C module in the first place?

They should eventually go to C, but I'll worry about it after the betas. :)

Thanks Ben, you beat me to it. I'll add it to the tracker.