Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes?

[Andrew Berg]

On 12/21/2011 1:29 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Anything that runs at import time should be protected by the `if 
> __name__ == '__main__'` idiom as the children will import the __main__ 
> module.
So the child imports the parent and runs the spawn code again? That
makes sense.

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