[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

[Dj Gilcrease]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you run the provided example code on windows by chance? If so, look at
> the multiprocessing docs, there are restrictions on windows (see the
> __main__ note) - not following the guidelines can result in lots of
> processes spawning.


Yes, on win7. I might recommend then that the examples in the PEP be
restructured to work correctly on windows by including the

if __name__ == '__main__':