jfroy/gitlabhq — comment on commit db2bf3221ed300b9a45a19c47bac3ee34ddeeb54
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By jfroy:

I've tested it on Mac OS X and it solves the issue. I don't know about other platforms, but I seriously doubt it would cause any issues there. As I wrote, this is simply forcing early initialization of Python. This is something that would happen on first-use otherwise on some arbitrary background thread.