persistant web state

[Jay O'Connor]

In article <mailman.1053445772.30048.python-list at python.org>, "Skip
Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> Jay> I'm lloking for a technique to allow me to keep memory alive
>     Jay> between invocations of a cgi program.  What I mean is that if I
>     Jay> have two cgi requests come into a script, they should be able
>     to Jay> access the same data in memory and not have to load from a
>     Jay> database.
> 
> Why not have a long-running process manage a shared memory segment using
> mmap?  Your CGI processes could then attach to that segment.


How would that work with Python objects?  I thought mmap was only for
file objects?

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