gh-132898: Add a note in multiprocessing.Process docs about creating a process in a REPL session#137118
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gpshead commented Jul 27, 2025
Thanks! I took this and started looking around the docs to tie things together. reworded now, with cross references. |
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gpshead changed the title multiprocessing.Process class documentation about how creating a process in a REPL sessionmultiprocessing.Process docs about creating a process in a REPL sessiongpshead merged commit 4e40f2b into python:main 25 checks passed
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miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2025
…reating a process in a REPL (pythonGH-137118) * Reword, expand, and clarify the limitation, highlighting the REPL case. * Mention in the high level Process description. * added a pointer to the GH issue from the doc note --------- (cherry picked from commit 4e40f2b) Co-authored-by: Duprat <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2025
…reating a process in a REPL (pythonGH-137118) * Reword, expand, and clarify the limitation, highlighting the REPL case. * Mention in the high level Process description. * added a pointer to the GH issue from the doc note --------- (cherry picked from commit 4e40f2b) Co-authored-by: Duprat <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
GH-137154 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
GH-137155 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
gpshead added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2025
…creating a process in a REPL (GH-137118) (#137155) gh-132898: Add a note in `multiprocessing.Process` docs about creating a process in a REPL (GH-137118) * Reword, expand, and clarify the limitation, highlighting the REPL case. * Mention in the high level Process description. * added a pointer to the GH issue from the doc note --------- (cherry picked from commit 4e40f2b) Co-authored-by: Duprat <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
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…creating a process in a REPL (GH-137118) (#137154) Co-authored-by: Duprat <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
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…reating a process in a REPL (pythonGH-137118) * Reword, expand, and clarify the limitation, highlighting the REPL case. * Mention in the high level Process description. * added a pointer to the GH issue from the doc note --------- Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
kumaraditya303 pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2025
…about creating a process in a REPL (pythonGH-137118) (python#137154) Co-authored-by: Duprat <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
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This note explains the implications between the location of the function or callable object passed to the
targetargument and the selected start method when you create a newProcessobject in a REPL session.I wonder if I have to add a reference to the issue at end of the note..
This should be backport to: 3.14
__mp_main__has no attributeis_primeinProcessPoolExecutorexample #132898📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--137118.org.readthedocs.build/