sharing data between processes

[holger krekel]

Alex Polite wrote:
> I need to share data between processes running on the same
> machine. One way I can think of is to write a sql backend for my
> objects and then have the processes access the same db, but that seems
> like overkill for this small project. 

indeed. 

> Google tells me that maybe http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/ could be
> used.  Any other ideas, preferably something that's in the standard
> library? And don't tell me I should use ZODB or you'll come to regret
> it!

maybe you can check out 

    http://snafu.freedom.org/Vmaps/Vmaps.html

it doesn't allow you to share objects (unless you pickle them, i guess)
but provides support for sharing basic types.  haven't used it myself
so far. 

    holger