What's the equivalence of os.fork() on Windows with Python?

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Published on 2010-04-29T15:59:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 16:07 UTC
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This code works well in Mac/Linux, but not in Windows.

import mmap
import os

map = mmap.mmap(-1, 13)
map.write("Hello world!")

pid = os.fork()

if pid == 0: # In a child process
    print 'child'
    map.seek(0)
    print map.readline()

    map.close()
else:
    print 'parent'
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