[issue36153] Freeze support documentation is misleading.

Sam Schott added the comment: I think freeze_support becomes relevant always when the start method is spawn since `sys.executable` will point to the frozen app bundle instead of the Python interpreter. Spawn was historically only used on Windows (therefore the note in the docs) but now also

[issue36153] Freeze support documentation is misleading.

Change by Brett Cannon : -- nosy: +davin, pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue36153] Freeze support documentation is misleading.

Sridhar Iyer added the comment: Please find the attached python file where the issue is seen. The cli to create an executable was: $pyinstaller run_server_min.spec Here are the contents of the file (this doesn't support multiple file uploads): # -*- mode: python ; coding:

[issue36153] Freeze support documentation is misleading.

Windson Yang added the comment: IIUC, your script (using Sklearn/tensorflow) will cause an infinite loop when building with pyinstaller. Would you mind upload an example script so I can try to reproduce it? -- nosy: +Windson Yang ___ Python

[issue36153] Freeze support documentation is misleading.

New submission from Sridhar Iyer : The documentation on freeze_support listed on https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html need to be fixed This mentions: "Calling freeze_support() has no effect when invoked on any operating system other than Windows. In addition, if the module