Stanislaw Izaak Pitucha added the comment:
I agree with what you said mostly. I wonder though if the message could be
clearer in the docs. I remember that the rule about the module being importable
without side-effects, but didn't even consider that for the interactive session.
New submission from Stanislaw Izaak Pitucha:
This is something that happened once and I cannot reproduce anymore. In an
IPython session I've done the following (see session below), which resulted in
pool.map raising its internal exceptions in cases where it shouldn't. Then it
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