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The multiprocessing module now uses the "spawn" start method by
default on macOS.

https://bugs.python.org/issue33725

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vstinner commented May 27, 2019

cc @warsaw @applio @pitrou

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vstinner commented May 27, 2019

I didn't test my PR. I'm not a multiprocessing expert at all, so I'm not sure that it even does what it is supposed to do :-D

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vstinner commented May 28, 2019

I tested my PR on macOS: it seems like it works as expected :-)

macbook:master haypo$ ./python.exe
Python 3.8.0a4+ (heads/pr/13603:d117d0f, May 28 2019, 14:37:04) 
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import multiprocessing; multiprocessing.get_context()
<multiprocessing.context.SpawnContext object at 0x1009c9550>

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On macOS, the multiprocessing module now uses the "spawn" start
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On macOS, the multiprocessing module now uses the "spawn" start
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