Try one of these: (in order of my preference) http://datamining.anu.edu.au/~ole/pypar/ http://www.parallelpython.com/ http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/seppo.html http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~aw/pylinda/
They exist on a higher level than pure IPC in that running a master server, spawning clients and message passing is already integrated. Depends on your use case of course. ~Gerdus On Feb 18, 2008 7:52 PM, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sagar Khushalani wrote: > > i have 5 processes. out of these, i need 1 to start a queue that can > > be shared between the other 4. 2 of them will add messages to the > > queue and 2 will read and remove off of it. any ideas? i'm a little > > confused how to share the queue between them. > > The Python "Queue" module is designed for communicating between threads > of a single process. It relies on a common memory space. > > For interprocess communication, you'll need to use a different scheme. > On Windows, you can try to use a named pipe or a mailslot, or even spawn > a message loop and exchange window messages. Or, you could take a > cross-platform approach and use sockets. > > You might try to Google for "python ipc"; I found a couple of good hits > in the first couple of pages. > > -- > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
