Pythons Multiprocess on Windows in a Package

Question

I am trying to use multiprocess on windows but I am encountering the infinite loop error. Now I know this can be fixed by using the name == "main" in a standard python script. My problem is I am packaging the script so name is equal to "testmultiprocess" (The package name).

I have created a small project on github to demonstrate my issue as it requires multiple files and an install.

Thanks, Niall

Edit:

test.py:

from multiprocessing import Process, Queue

def testFunction():
    print "testFunction"

def main():
    print __name__
    p = Process(target=testFunction)
    p.start()
    p.join()

name that is printed is allways "testmultiprocessing" as it is the package name

Answer 1

I managed to fix this by patching the script created in the python directory that runs my package.

C:\Python27\Scripts\testmultiprocess-script.py

from:

sys.exit(
    load_entry_point(.....)
)

to:

if __name__ == '__main__':
 sys.exit(
     load_