Re: PyObjC and multiprocessing module

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011, Trevor Bentley wrote:
>
> I found a bunch of hits for this on Google, but no answers:
> 
> I am working on a Python application that uses the multiprocessing library.
>  I am trying to spawn a process and perform text-to-speech with pyttsx, but
> I get the
> dreaded  __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>  error.
> 
> Is there any way to get this working, short of switching back to threads?
> I see that the 'correct' way is to fork() and exec(), but I don't see any
> way to make that compatible with the multiprocessing module's API.

You could do something other than multiprocessing module to access
another process (socket to me!).  Depends how much a problem the GIL is
for you.
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