@@ -518,9 +518,9 @@ Global start method
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519519Python supports several ways to create and initialize a process. The global start method sets the default mechanism for creating a process.
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521- Several multiprocessing functions and methods, as well as creating some objects, will implicitly
522- set the global start method to the system's default, if the global start method is not already
523- set. The global start method can only be done once. If you need to change the
521+ Several multiprocessing functions and methods that may also instantiate
522+ certain objects will implicitly set the global start method to the system's default,
523+ if it hasn’t been set already . The global start method can only be set once. If you need to change the
524524start method from the system default, you must proactively set the global start method
525525before calling functions or methods, or creating these objects.
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@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ Miscellaneous
11411141 :mod: `multiprocessing ` module.
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11431143 If *method * is ``None `` then the default context is returned. Note that if
1144- the global start method has not been set, this will set it.
1144+ the global start method has not been set, this will set it to the system default
11451145 See :ref: `global-start-method ` for more details.
11461146 Otherwise *method * should be ``'fork' ``, ``'spawn' ``,
11471147 ``'forkserver' ``. :exc: `ValueError ` is raised if the specified
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ Miscellaneous
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11541154 Return the name of start method used for starting processes.
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1156- If the start method is not set and *allow_none * is ``False ``, the start
1156+ If the global start method is not set and *allow_none * is ``False ``, the global start
11571157 method is set to the default, and its name is returned. See
11581158 :ref: `global-start-method ` for more details.
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