ImportError: cannot import name 'process'

[anthony-tuininga]

Originally reported by: zaazbb (Bitbucket: zaazbb, GitHub: zaazbb)

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import Process from multiprocessing, build a exe and run it, met a import error.

#!python

from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe, freeze_support

if __name__ == '__main__':
    freeze_support()
    ...

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_freeze/issue/230

[anthony-tuininga]

Original comment by zaazbb (Bitbucket: zaazbb, GitHub: zaazbb):

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if i import Process from multiprocessing.context, it runs ok, no import error.

[anthony-tuininga]

Original comment by Graham Jones (Bitbucket: grahamrjuk, GitHub: grahamrjuk):

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Is this the same as #214 ?

[Siecje]

I also have this problem with cx_Freeze==5.0.1 on Windows.

from multiprocessing.context import Process does not work.

[grahamrjuk]

I have my own (new) solution which works for me at the moment (assuming the detail is the same as in #214). I forked cx_Freeze and pushed a branch named proceess_import:
https://github.com/grahamrjuk/cx_Freeze/tree/process_import

I give no guarantee that it is the right solution.

Since it may not be the best solution I haven't raised a pull-request for it at the moment. Perhaps that is the best way to find out if I am close to a sensible solution.

[Siecje]

I think creating a pull-request is a good idea, even if it doesn't get merged.

[anthony-tuininga]

The problem is that the multiprocessing package has both Process (class) and process (submodule) but the imp.find_module() function on Windows finds both of them as submodules! I have pushed a change to cx_Freeze that tells it to ignore multiprocessing.Process. You can see more details on pull request #241 .

[grahamrjuk]

I knew there would be a better solution than my original go. Thanks for working this out.

[anthony-tuininga]

No problem. Thanks for creating the pull request. It was helpful in that it pointed to the problem that was taking place!

[reike]

Hi everyone,
I upgraded cx_Freeze to the latest version :
In [1]: import cx_Freeze
In [2]: cx_Freeze.version
Out[2]: 6.0b1

Still, I get the same error :
File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 16, in <module> from . import context File "C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\multiprocessing\context.py", line 5, in <module> from . import process ImportError: cannot import name 'process'

Has the problem actually been fixed ?

Thanks !

[niecore]

I think its not fixed. Same actually happens for multiprocessing.pool.