Python 2.7 on Windows, “assert main_name not in sys.modules, main_name” for all multiprocessing examples

Question

There is following simple code:

from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support

def foo():
    print \'hello\'

if __name__ == \'__main__\':
    freeze_         


        

Answer 1

This is a known bug:

http://bugs.python.org/issue10845

Not sure if this will ever get ported to 2.7.X.