[issue11969] Can't launch multiproccessing.Process on methods

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

REPL is the Python interactive prompt in this case (REPL is Read Eval Print Loop).  So Jesse is saying that using multiprocessing from the REPL (at least on Windows) isn't supported.  This is because on Windows multiprocessing needs to re-import the main program in order to start the function in a worker process.  When using the REPL, there is no main program from which to import the function.

The test case failing on windows may or may not be a related issue; I'm not familiar enough with mulitprocessing to say.

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