[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

[Matt Chaput]

Matt Chaput added the comment:

IIRC the root issue turned out to be that when you execute any multiprocessing statements at the module/script level on Windows, you need to put it under if __name__ == "__main__", otherwise it will cause infinite spawning.

I think this is mentioned in the multiprocessing docs but should probably be in giant blinking red letters ;)

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