[issue18999] Allow multiple calls to multiprocessing.set_start_method

2013-09-10 Thread Lars Buitinck
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[issue18999] Allow multiple calls to multiprocessing.set_start_method

2013-09-10 Thread Lars Buitinck
New submission from Lars Buitinck: The new multiprocessing based on forkserver (issue8713) looks great, but it has two problems. The first: "set_start_method() should not be used more than once in the program." The documentation does not explain what the effect of calling it twice would be. J