Vinay Sajip added the comment: > Have a look at the sample.py program.
It fails on Python 3.4.3 on my Linux system (just renamed to mp_sample.py): python3 mp_sample.py starting (without multiprocessing pool)... worker process 0 worker process 3 worker process 4 worker process 6 worker process 5 worker process 9 worker process 8 worker process 7 worker process 1 worker process 2 starting (with multiprocessing pool)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "mp_sample.py", line 82, in <module> op.start() File "mp_sample.py", line 43, in start result.get() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 599, in get raise self._value File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 383, in _handle_tasks put(task) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 206, in send self._send_bytes(ForkingPickler.dumps(obj)) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 50, in dumps cls(buf, protocol).dump(obj) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 57, in __getstate__ context.assert_spawning(self) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/context.py", line 347, in assert_spawning ' through inheritance' % type(obj).__name__ RuntimeError: Queue objects should only be shared between processes through inheritance Also: QueueHandler isn't designed to be pickleable, nor is that necessary for use with multiprocessing. The logging cookbook contains a working example with QueueHandler and multiple processes using multiprocessing, and I've just run it on Python 3.6 (and 3.7) with no problems. See https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#logging-to-a-single-file-from-multiple-processes No idea why the sample program isn't working, and I'm sorry I haven't the time to look at it in detail. Please confirm if the linked sample works on your system, and if it does, see if you can adapt it to your needs. Note that it doesn't pickle any handlers. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29168> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com