From b992dc19e31d539dec7365d1a47501f7a582ae61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20L=C3=B3pez=20Barr=C3=B3n?= <chris.gfz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 18:42:51 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] moved assert statement for name on try_set_start_method after
 its autoset

---
 tractor/_spawn.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tractor/_spawn.py b/tractor/_spawn.py
index 859cc4e..2d8a4bf 100644
--- a/tractor/_spawn.py
+++ b/tractor/_spawn.py
@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@ def try_set_start_method(name: str) -> mp.context.BaseContext:
     global _ctx
 
     allowed = mp.get_all_start_methods()
-    assert name in allowed
 
     if name not in allowed:
-        name == 'spawn'
+        name = 'spawn'
     elif name == 'fork':
         raise ValueError(
             "`fork` is unsupported due to incompatibility with `trio`"
@@ -35,6 +34,8 @@ def try_set_start_method(name: str) -> mp.context.BaseContext:
     elif name == 'forkserver':
         _forkserver_hackzorz.override_stdlib()
 
+    assert name in allowed
+
     _ctx = mp.get_context(name)
     return _ctx