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Re: Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes?

Date 2011-12-21 14:11 -0600
From Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes?
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On 12/21/2011 1:29 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Anything that runs at import time should be protected by the `if 
> __name__ == '__main__'` idiom as the children will import the __main__ 
> module.
So the child imports the parent and runs the spawn code again? That
makes sense.

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Re: Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-12-21 14:11 -0600
  Re: Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-22 12:17 +0100

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