[issue10015] Creating a multiproccess.pool.ThreadPool from a child thread blows up.

Christian added the comment: A workaround would be to call the following in the thread you want to use ThreadPool: if not hasattr(threading.current_process(), "_children"): threading.current_process()._children = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary() (putting this in Process could be a very simple

[issue10015] Creating a multiproccess.pool.ThreadPool from a child thread blows up.

Jesse Noller added the comment: I can not, for the life of me, remember why ThreadPool is there, except as a fallback. It's also not part of the documented interface as well. Additionally, in Python 3 we now have futures. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10015] Creating a multiproccess.pool.ThreadPool from a child thread blows up.

Changes by R. David Murray : -- nosy: +asksol, jnoller type: crash -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue10015] Creating a multiproccess.pool.ThreadPool from a child thread blows up.

New submission from Michael Olson : Using Python 2.7 x32 on Windows XP Attempting to create a multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool in a child thread created using threading.Thread, an AttributeError is thrown. A ThreadPool created in the main thread can be passed to the child thread and used. Exac