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Multiprocessing fails on Windows #8

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anthonydb opened this issue Dec 31, 2015 · 1 comment
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Multiprocessing fails on Windows #8

anthonydb opened this issue Dec 31, 2015 · 1 comment
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Apparently, Windows does not support os.fork(), as does Linux. This causes the library to throw the error An attempt has been made to start a new process before the current process has finished its bootstrapping phase.

The issue is discussed in detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1923706/multiprocessing-launching-too-many-instances-of-python-vm
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Current (not entirely satisfactory) solution is to test for operating system and enable multiprocessing under Mac/Linux only.

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