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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-06-20 15:54:03 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-06-20 15:54:03 (GMT)
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(merge 3.2) Issue #12285: multiprocessing.Pool() raises a ValueError if the
number of processes if negative or null.
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diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
index 92170f2..e450319 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ class Pool(object):
processes = cpu_count()
except NotImplementedError:
processes = 1
+ if processes < 1:
+ raise ValueError("Number of processes must be at least 1")
if initializer is not None and not hasattr(initializer, '__call__'):
raise TypeError('initializer must be a callable')