commit 6a942528ecd0087b91a6c0a5fef5a57b307e7ca9
author Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> Fri May 25 12:56:33 2012 +0100
committer Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> Fri May 25 12:56:33 2012 +0100
tree fc60b6c1bc48f6d90548007a92c719afcc345365
parent 877effc2986ad30ecd5454811b0449bcfe3037f5

Issue #14881: Allow normal non-main thread to spawn a dummy process

Fix suggested by Itay Brandes

Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
index 19a3b69..e3b126e 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@
     def start(self):
         assert self._parent is current_process()
         self._start_called = True
-        self._parent._children[self] = None
+        if hasattr(self._parent, '_children'):
+            self._parent._children[self] = None
         threading.Thread.start(self)
 
     @property