[Python-Dev] Issue #10348: concurrent.futures doesn't work on BSD (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 30 21:43:13 CET 2010

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:36:47 -0800 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> And, again, the threading-based API in concurrent.futures should work >> fine anyway. Do you suggest we selectively disable the process-based >> API? > > Yes. Importing concurrent.futures.process should fail.

If I understand correctly, it is possible to adjust BSD so that this will work -- as a user I would much rather be informed of that, even as just a caution, than to have Python not have the functionality even after I had fixed the OS problems. Mind you, I have no idea how hard it would be to make this happen in the module in an intelligent way.

As I said, we can just emit a Warning instead of raising an exception.

Regards

Antoine.

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