I'm using Version: 1.73.1 of VSCode with Python 3.10. This script:
from multiprocessing import Process
def foo(i):
print(i)
for i in range(12):
Process(target=foo, args=(i,)).start()
runs fine inside VSCode on Ubuntu 22.04.1, but fails on Windows 10 with this error message:
RuntimeError:
An attempt has been made to start a new process before the
current process has finished its bootstrapping phase.
This probably means that you are not using fork to start your
child processes and you have forgotten to use the proper idiom
in the main module:
if __name__ == '__main__':
freeze_support()
...
Indeed, adding the "proper idiom" makes it run correctly. Why this difference between the two OSes?
