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  r70912 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:35:46 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5617: add a handy function to print a unicode string to gdbinit.
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  r70944 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:32:39 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5631: add upload to list of possible commands, which is presented in --help-commands.
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  r70968 | michael.foord | 2009-04-01 13:25:38 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Adding Wing project file
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  r71033 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 22:34:53 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix two issues introduced by issue #71031 by changing the signature of
  PyImport_AppendInittab() to take a const char *.
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  r71041 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-02 00:17:26 -0500 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add custom initializer argument to multiprocess.Manager*, courtesy of lekma
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  r71208 | michael.foord | 2009-04-04 20:15:01 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 4 lines

  Change the way unittest.TestSuite use their tests to always access them through iteration. Non behavior changing, this allows you to create custom subclasses that override __iter__.

  Issue #5693
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  r71263 | michael.foord | 2009-04-05 14:19:28 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 4 lines

  Adding assertIs and assertIsNot methods to unittest.TestCase

  Issue #2578
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  r71286 | tarek.ziade | 2009-04-05 17:04:38 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  added a simplest test to distutils.spawn._nt_quote_args
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  r71395 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-08 08:27:29 -0500 (Wed, 08 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  these must be installed to correctly run tests
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  r71396 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-08 08:29:41 -0500 (Wed, 08 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  fix syntax
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  r71405 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-09 06:22:47 -0500 (Thu, 09 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add items
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  r71406 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-09 06:23:36 -0500 (Thu, 09 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fixes
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  r71485 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-11 11:12:23 -0500 (Sat, 11 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r71492 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-11 13:19:27 -0500 (Sat, 11 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Take credit for a patch of mine.
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  r71494 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-11 14:31:00 -0500 (Sat, 11 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  ignore py3_test_grammar when compiling the library
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2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py
index cb102e5..40af8f0 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py
@@ -478,12 +478,15 @@ class BaseManager(object):
         dispatch(conn, None, 'dummy')
         self._state.value = State.STARTED
 
-    def start(self):
+    def start(self, initializer=None, initargs=()):
         '''
         Spawn a server process for this manager object
         '''
         assert self._state.value == State.INITIAL
 
+        if initializer is not None and not hasattr(initializer, '__call__'):
+            raise TypeError('initializer must be a callable')
+
         # pipe over which we will retrieve address of server
         reader, writer = connection.Pipe(duplex=False)
 
@@ -491,7 +494,7 @@ class BaseManager(object):
         self._process = Process(
             target=type(self)._run_server,
             args=(self._registry, self._address, self._authkey,
-                  self._serializer, writer),
+                  self._serializer, writer, initializer, initargs),
             )
         ident = ':'.join(str(i) for i in self._process._identity)
         self._process.name = type(self).__name__  + '-' + ident
@@ -512,10 +515,14 @@ class BaseManager(object):
             )
 
     @classmethod
-    def _run_server(cls, registry, address, authkey, serializer, writer):
+    def _run_server(cls, registry, address, authkey, serializer, writer,
+                    initializer=None, initargs=()):
         '''
         Create a server, report its address and run it
         '''
+        if initializer is not None:
+            initializer(*initargs)
+
         # create server
         server = cls._Server(registry, address, authkey, serializer)
 
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
index bf2608d..5c1805f 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ class Pool(object):
             except NotImplementedError:
                 processes = 1
 
+        if initializer is not None and not hasattr(initializer, '__call__'):
+            raise TypeError('initializer must be a callable')
+
         self._pool = []
         for i in range(processes):
             w = self.Process(