Message 304649 - Python tracker

Message304649

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Mirko Friedenhagen, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2017-10-20.08:59:33
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Message-id	<1508489973.52.0.213398074469.issue31818@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> 3) Find a workaround (such as calling the APIs used by _scproxy in a clean supprocess). I dislike the idea of always spawning a child process, I prefer to leave it as it is, but add a recipe in the doc, or add a new helper function doing that. Spawning a subprocess can have side effects as well, whereas the subprocess is only need if you call the function after forking which is not the most common pattern in Python.

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> 3) Find a workaround (such as calling the APIs used by _scproxy in a clean supprocess).

I dislike the idea of *always* spawning a child process, I prefer to leave it as it is, but add a recipe in the doc, or add a new helper function doing that.

Spawning a subprocess can have side effects as well, whereas the subprocess is only need if you call the function after forking which is not the most common pattern in Python.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-10-20 08:59:33	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, ronaldoussoren, ned.deily, Mirko Friedenhagen
2017-10-20 08:59:33	vstinner	set	messageid: <1508489973.52.0.213398074469.issue31818@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2017-10-20 08:59:33	vstinner	create