[issue21204] published examples don't work

2014-04-14 Thread jmaki
jmaki added the comment: loewis, r.david.murray: Please proceed in terms of #3--The specific example does not work on Windows. I am using python 2.7.6 on Windows 7. Below is the failing message that happens immediately on startup, specifically, when hitting this line: Process(target

[issue21204] multiprocessing example does not work on Windows

2014-04-14 Thread jmaki
jmaki added the comment: Upon further investigation, this may be related to: http://bugs.python.org/issue1378 However, it seems the issue is not checked-in to Windows release for 2.x? Regards, John -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue21204] published examples don't work

2014-04-11 Thread jmaki
New submission from jmaki: Would you consider putting examples given in official documentation as part of release testing? e.g. (from official python.org documentation): - snip - An example of how a pool of worker processes can each run