import multiprocessing def foo(conn): conn.send("123") # Because "if __name__ == '__main__'" is missing this will not work # correctly on Windows. However, we should get a RuntimeError rather # than the Windows equivalent of a fork bomb. r, w = multiprocessing.Pipe(False) p = multiprocessing.Process(target=foo, args=(w,)) p.start() w.close() print(r.recv()) r.close() p.join()