parallel_apply throws AssertionError: daemonic processes are not allowed to have children

Hello,

When trying to do a parallel_apply from a Celery instanciated process (celery worker), this AssertionError is raised: AssertionError: daemonic processes are not allowed to have children

In this case, I have 3 dataframes to construct in parallel, so I have instanciated 3 Celery workers, each worker will create a df using map functions in parallel_apply, but it seems that it’s not supported to call parallel_apply from a daemonic process :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 385, in trace_task
    R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 648, in __protected_call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/base.py", line 481, in run
    raise task.retry(exc=exc, **retry_kwargs)
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/task.py", line 703, in retry
    raise_with_context(exc)
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/app/base.py", line 472, in run
    return task._orig_run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/path/to/my_file.py", line 35, in create_my_df
    df['geo'] = df.parallel_apply(lambda row: set_geo(row), axis=1)
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandarallel/pandarallel.py", line 355, in closure
    manager = Manager()
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/context.py", line 56, in Manager
    m.start()
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 563, in start
    self._process.start()
  File "/home/yonolo/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 110, in start
    'daemonic processes are not allowed to have children'
AssertionError: daemonic processes are not allowed to have children

Could you please check, if there is a workaroud ? as Ray framework for example that enables using multiprocessing from a celery worker…

Thanks !

[YonoloX]

Thanks @mccarthyryanc for your answer, but that works fine only with multithreading, however the problem persists in multiprocessing.

[till-m]

If I understand correctly, this can be closed. Feel free to reopen if not.