[issue11161] futures.ProcessPoolExecutor hangs

[Brian Quinlan]

Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> added the comment:

ProcessPoolExecutor is not expected to work with any interactive shell on Windows because it uses the multiprocessing module behind the scenes, which has that limitation.

I'm reclassifying this as a documentation bug since either a reference to http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html#programming-guidelines should appear in the futures docs or (better) the content should be rewritten specifically for ProcessPoolExecutor.

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