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gh-85299: Add note warning about entry point guard for asyncio example #93457

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Add note warning about entry point guard for asyncio example
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1206,7 +1206,13 @@ Executing code in thread or process pools
pool, cpu_bound)
print('custom process pool', result)

asyncio.run(main())
if __name__ == '__main__':
asyncio.run(main())

Note that the entry point guard (``if __name__ == '__main__'``)
is required for option 3 due to the peculiarities of :mod:`multiprocessing`,
which is used by :class:`~concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`.
See :ref:`Safe importing of main module <multiprocessing-safe-main-import>`.

This method returns a :class:`asyncio.Future` object.

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
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Expand Up @@ -2943,6 +2943,8 @@ Global variables
However, global variables which are just module level constants cause no
problems.

.. _multiprocessing-safe-main-import:

Safe importing of main module

Make sure that the main module can be safely imported by a new Python
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