IPC with multiprocessing.connection

[bobicanprogram]

On Dec 22, 3:27 pm, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a system where my main program launches external
> programs and then establishes connections to them via named pipes or
> Unix domain sockets (depending on platform) with
> multiprocessing.connection.Listener. The issue I'm having is with the
> accept() method. If there is nothing on the other side of the
> pipe/socket, it just hangs. Connection objects have a poll() method that
> can timeout, but I see no way to continue the program if there's no
> initial connection. What I'd like to do is let it time out if there's
> nothing on the other side.
> I'm pretty new to the multiprocessing module (and IPC in general), so I
> could've easily missed something.
>
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> CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640

You might want to check out the code samples at:
http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html

bob