Processes stuck in loop with PyInstaller-executable

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You need to use multiprocessing.freeze_support() when you produce a Windows executable with PyInstaller.

Straight out from the docs:

multiprocessing.freeze_support()

Add support for when a program which uses multiprocessing has been frozen to produce a Windows executable. (Has been tested with py2exe, PyInstaller and cx_Freeze.)

One needs to call this function straight after the if name == ‘main‘ line of the main module. For example:

from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support

def f():
    print('hello world!')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    freeze_support()
    Process(target=f).start()

If the freeze_support() line is omitted then trying to run the frozen executable will raise RuntimeError.

Calling freeze_support() has no effect when invoked on any operating system other than Windows. In addition, if the module is being run normally by the Python interpreter on Windows (the program has not been frozen), then freeze_support() has no effect.

In your example you also have unnecessary code duplication you should tackle.

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