[Python-Dev] multiprocessing problems

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Currently, multiprocessing cannot be imported:
>>
>>>>> import multiprocessing
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "/home/gbr/devel/python/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 63, in
>> <module>
>> import _multiprocessing
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BufferTooShort'
>>
>> The test suite passes (at least for some buildbots) because it imports
>> _multiprocessing first, which then in its init function imports
>> multiprocessing
>> to get the BufferTooShort exception.
>
> I fixed it by moving the _multiprocessing import below the exception
> definitions.
>
>>
>> Since BufferTooShort and other exceptions inheriting from ProcessError are
>> simple derived exceptions, why aren't they created in the C module in the
>> first place?
>
> They should eventually go to C, but I'll worry about it after the betas. :)
>

Thanks Ben, you beat me to it. I'll add it to the tracker.