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-rw-r--r--src/flake8/checker.py3
-rw-r--r--src/flake8/utils.py12
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/flake8/checker.py b/src/flake8/checker.py
index d331b0c..57fd896 100644
--- a/src/flake8/checker.py
+++ b/src/flake8/checker.py
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ class Manager(object):
if (utils.is_windows() and
not utils.can_run_multiprocessing_on_windows()):
- LOG.warning('The --jobs option is only available on Windows on '
+ LOG.warning('The --jobs option is not available on Windows due to'
+ ' a bug (https://bugs.python.org/issue27649) in '
'Python 2.7.11+ and 3.3+. We have detected that you '
'are running an unsupported version of Python on '
'Windows. Ignoring --jobs arguments.')
diff --git a/src/flake8/utils.py b/src/flake8/utils.py
index 1e18316..55c699e 100644
--- a/src/flake8/utils.py
+++ b/src/flake8/utils.py
@@ -164,10 +164,20 @@ def is_windows():
return os.name == 'nt'
+# NOTE(sigmavirus24): If and when https://bugs.python.org/issue27649 is fixed,
+# re-enable multiprocessing support on Windows.
def can_run_multiprocessing_on_windows():
# type: () -> bool
"""Determine if we can use multiprocessing on Windows.
+ This presently will **always** return False due to a `bug`_ in the
+ :mod:`multiprocessing` module on Windows. Once fixed, we will check
+ to ensure that the version of Python contains that fix (via version
+ inspection) and *conditionally* re-enable support on Windows.
+
+ .. _bug:
+ https://bugs.python.org/issue27649
+
:returns:
True if the version of Python is modern enough, otherwise False
:rtype:
@@ -175,7 +185,7 @@ def can_run_multiprocessing_on_windows():
"""
is_new_enough_python27 = (2, 7, 11) <= sys.version_info < (3, 0)
is_new_enough_python3 = sys.version_info > (3, 2)
- return is_new_enough_python27 or is_new_enough_python3
+ return False and (is_new_enough_python27 or is_new_enough_python3)
def is_using_stdin(paths):