Change by Kagami Sascha Rosylight :
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title: multiprocessing.Pool(64) crashes on Windows -> multiprocessing.Pool(64)
throws on Windows
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Python tracker
<https://bugs.python.org/issu
Kagami Sascha Rosylight added the comment:
The argument-less instantiation also fails, which is worse.
```
>>> multiprocessing.Pool()
>>> Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\Users\sasch\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\
New submission from Kagami Sascha Rosylight :
Similar issue as the previous issue 26903.
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Python 3.9.7 (tags/v3.9.7:1016ef3, Aug 30 2021, 20:19:38) [MSC v.1929 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
Kagami Sascha Rosylight added the comment:
It seems libuv and pwsh decided to detect and read them just as symlinks:
https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/2812
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/10331
Could Python do the same
New submission from Kagami Sascha Rosylight :
After installing Python from Microsoft Store, this fails:
```
>>> open('C:\\Users\\Kagami\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\python.exe')
Traceback (most recent call last)
Kagami Sascha Rosylight added the comment:
Should `ntpath.normpath` make the drive letter uppercase?
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Python tracker
<https://bugs.python.org/issue40
Kagami Sascha Rosylight added the comment:
I mentioned `os.path.abspath` because `os.path.abspath(".")` on console
returned `'c:\\Users\\Kagami\\Documents\\GitHub\\gecko-dev'`. It seems this
incompatibility is partially because MSYS shell prefers lowercase letter for
New submission from Kagami Sascha Rosylight :
```
$ python3.7
Python 3.7.4 (tags/v3.7.4:e09359112e, Jul 8 2019, 20:34:20) [MSC v.1916 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
