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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-10-25 17:53:06 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-10-25 17:53:06 (GMT) |
| commit | 6a4cbc00ab7bd62560e11a7ed09a1b24c7e96ae1 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst index c2f92b3..93538e4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst +++ b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst @@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ uses a pool of processes to execute calls asynchronously. allows it to side-step the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock` but also means that only picklable objects can be executed and returned. +The ``__main__`` module must be importable by worker subprocesses. This means +that :class:`ProcessPoolExecutor` will not work in the interactive interpreter. + Calling :class:`Executor` or :class:`Future` methods from a callable submitted to a :class:`ProcessPoolExecutor` will result in deadlock. |