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-rw-r--r--Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
index 364b53f..c3adfc1 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ def import_main_path(main_path):
main_module = types.ModuleType(main_name)
# XXX Use a target of main_module?
spec = importlib.find_spec(main_name, path=dirs)
+ if spec is None:
+ raise ImportError(name=main_name)
methods = importlib._bootstrap._SpecMethods(spec)
methods.init_module_attrs(main_module)
main_module.__name__ = '__mp_main__'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f99a0d8..93b9dd6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to
+ be used as the main module cannot be imported.
+
- Issue #17919: select.poll.poll() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email