what does PYTHONOPTIMIZE do in the python interpreter?

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I run a python task with supervisor, and when I try to use mutilprocess in the python task.I meet with the error

"File/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 124, in start 

'daemonic processes are not allowed to have children'"

But that's okay after I execute the command "export PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1" in the terminal .Anyone can tell me what has happened while executing the command "export PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1"

export is used to set environment variables in linux based systems — Arpit Solanki
– Arpit Solanki, Commented Sep 13, 2017 at 3:49

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-14 11:40:49Z

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Setting the PYTHONOPTIMIZE environment variable to 1 is the same thing as using the -O command line switch:

Remove assert statements and any code conditional on the value of __debug__.

The error message you see is an AssertionError exception; the relevant section of the source code uses assert:

assert not _current_process._daemonic, \
       'daemonic processes are not allowed to have children'

so setting the environment variable only suppresses the assertion. The problem itself doesn't go away.

answered Aug 14, 2019 at 11:40

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