[issue11969] Can't launch Process on built-in static method

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

Running on winxp with IDLE, I get the second traceback, all the same after the first line. Given "target is the callable object to be invoked by the run() method.", I would have expected this to work too.

Problem is not builtins:
class C:
    def f(s): print( 'here')

p = multiprocessing.Process(target=C.f, args=(C(),))
p.start()

gives same error, ending in
_pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <function f at 0x00FE5AE0>: it's not found as __main__.f

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nosy: +jnoller, terry.reedy

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