From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:47:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Make call of os.getppid() conditional: it is not available on Windows.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~728
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e683ef55fca11d940794dde000d554e2b6c8f513;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Make call of os.getppid() conditional: it is not available on Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 303cdbcf9318..bac9cf05b704 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ To show the individual process IDs involved, here is an expanded example::
     def info(title):
         print title
         print 'module name:', __name__
-        print 'parent process:', os.getppid()
+        if hasattr(os, 'getppid'):  # only available on Unix
+            print 'parent process:', os.getppid()
         print 'process id:', os.getpid()
 
     def f(name):