[New-bugs-announce] [issue34034] Python 3.7.0 multiprocessing forkserver ForkingPickler behaviour change

[Santiago Hernandez]

New submission from Santiago Hernandez <santiago at jampp.com>:

Hi,

I am splitting some processing among different processes with the forkserver start method using multiprocessing.
In python 3.4 to 3.6 this worked fine.
In python 3.7.0 it's breaking with the following Traceback:

```
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 112, in start
    self._popen = self._Popen(self)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/context.py", line 223, in _Popen
    return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/context.py", line 284, in _Popen
    return Popen(process_obj)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 32, in __init__
    super().__init__(process_obj)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py", line 20, in __init__
    self._launch(process_obj)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 47, in _launch
    reduction.dump(process_obj, fp)
  File "/data/venvs/py37/Python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 60, in dump
    ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
TypeError: can't pickle weakref objects
```

I am attaching a minimum example where this happens.
In the example this can be solved by making self._run_single a staticmethod.

However, I would like to understand what is going on and what changed in python for this to throw an exception now, when before it did not.

Thanks.
Santiago

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files: example.py
messages: 320995
nosy: Santiago Hernandez
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 3.7.0 multiprocessing forkserver ForkingPickler behaviour change
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47670/example.py

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