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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:03:59 +1000
Subject: Re: Unwanted window spawns when using Tkinter with multiprocessing.
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:40 AM,  <alternative00@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Well I saw this clause on most of the multiprocessing examples I saw but the reason it was here wasn't explained so I just ignored it (yeah stupid I know). I don't think I bypassed anything, at least not on purpose. I'm running on Windows 7  64 bits.

Using multiprocessing on Windows has some requirements:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#windows

If you take care of those restrictions, you should be able to do this.
As Dave pointed out, one of the requirements is for your module to be
importable.

ChrisA