I've released version 1.3 of the Spread Module for Python: http://www.python.org/other/spread/ About the Spread Module ----------------------- This package contains a simple Python wrapper module for the Spread toolkit (see below). The wrapper is compatible with Python 2.1 and 2.2. It wraps Spread mailboxes and messages in Python objects with appropriate methods and attributes, and turns Spread errors into Python exceptions. Virtually all Spread features are accessible from Python. About Spread ------------

From the Spread website (http://www.spread.org):

Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and provides highly tuned application-level multicast and group communication support. Spread services range from reliable message passing to fully ordered messages with delivery guarantees, even in case of computer failures and network partitions. Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications, allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components of their application. Changes since release 1.2 ------------------------- - Critical bugfix: We didn't realize that the service_type argument to Spread's SP_receive() is an input parameter as well as an output parameter, and consequently didn't initialize it. Depending on what trash happened to be sitting on the stack, this could cause Spread to deliberately drop data (a backward compatibility feature in Spread triggered by passing the DROP_RECV flag in service_type on input). Enjoy! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)