Ipc mechanisms and designs.

[Nikita the Spider]

In article <1186760055.658942.116300 at x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
 king kikapu <aboudouvas at panafonet.gr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> inspired of the topic "The Future of Python Threading", i started to
> realize that the only way to utilize the power of multiple cores using
> Python, is spawn processes and "communicate" with them.
> 
> If we have the scenario:
> 
> 1. Windows (mainly) development
> 2. Processes are running in the same machine
> 3. We just want to "pass" info from one process to another. Info may
> be simple data types or user defined Python objects.
> 
> what is the best solution (besides sockets) that someone can implement
> so to have 2 actually processes that interchanged data between them ?
> I looked at Pyro and it looks really good but i wanted to experiment
> with a simpler solution.

Hi King Kikapu
There's a shared memory module for Python, but it is *nix only, I'm 
afraid. I realize you said "mainly Windows" but this module seems to do 
what you want so maybe you can work out a creative solution.

http://NikitaTheSpider.com/python/shm/

Good luck with whatever you choose

-- 
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
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