Multiprocessing causes Python to crash and gives a…

I am relatively new to Python and trying to implement a Multiprocessing module for my for loop.

I have an array of Image url’s stored in img_urls which I need to download and apply some Google vision.

if __name__ == '__main__':

    img_urls = [ALL_MY_Image_URLS]
    runAll(img_urls)
    print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

This is my runAll() method

def runAll(img_urls):
    num_cores = multiprocessing.cpu_count()

    print("Image URLS  {}",len(img_urls))
    if len(img_urls) > 2:
        numberOfImages = 0
    else:
        numberOfImages = 1

    start_timeProcess = time.time()

    pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
    pool.map(annotate,img_urls)
    end_timeProcess = time.time()
    print('n Time to complete ', end_timeProcess-start_timeProcess)

    print(full_matching_pages)


def annotate(img_path):
    file =  requests.get(img_path).content
    print("file is",file)
    """Returns web annotations given the path to an image."""
    print('Process Working under ',os.getpid())
    image = types.Image(content=file)
    web_detection = vision_client.web_detection(image=image).web_detection
    report(web_detection)

I am getting this as the warning when I run it and python crashes

objc[67570]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67570]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
objc[67567]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67567]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
objc[67568]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67568]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
objc[67569]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67569]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
objc[67571]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67571]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
objc[67572]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[67572]: +[__NSPlaceholderDate initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.

Answer

This error occurs because of added security to restrict multithreading in macOS High Sierra and later versions of macOS. I know this answer is a bit late, but I solved the problem using the following method:

Set an environment variable .bash_profile (or .zshrc for recent macOS) to allow multithreading applications or scripts under the new macOS High Sierra security rules.

Open a terminal:

$ nano .bash_profile

Add the following line to the end of the file:

OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES

Save, exit, close terminal and re-open the terminal. Check to see that the environment variable is now set:

$ env

You will see output similar to:

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
TMPDIR=/var/folders/pn/vasdlj3ojO#OOas4dasdffJq/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.E7qLFJDSo/Render
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=404
TERM_SESSION_ID=NONE
OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES

You should now be able to run your Python script with multithreading.

Multiprocessing causes Python to crash and gives an error may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called

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