[Baypiggies] how to IPC with python on linux?

[Brent Tubbs]

Another solution I played with recently:
http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorial-one-python.html

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about D-BUS, or some other more general IPC solution? Python's got good DBUS bindings IIRC...
>
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 22:47 , Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
>>
>> Brian> The easy answer is to use the multiprocessing package:
>> Brian> http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
>>
>> Heh.  I just tried to use multiprocessing for the first time for hgit,
>> my hg-to-git conversion program[1].  My rationale was probably similar
>> to that of jim's group or many other people, i.e. threads are a pain,
>> there's the GIL, etc.  But in the end I gave up and used threads.  The
>> trouble was that everything I sent over the IPC channel had to be
>> picklable, and worse, the target of a multiprocessing.Process cannot be
>> any callable (as it can for thrading.Thread), but only a module-level
>> function, i.e. no closures or instance methods.  These requirements
>> together would pretty much force me to make all the interesting data
>> global.
>>
>> [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hgit/20101202
>>
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