Distributed Cache Server?

[Gerhard Häring]

ken.faulkner at gmail.com wrote:
> Does anyone know if a "distributed caching system" has been developed
> for use with Python? I've seen mention of memcached, but was really
> after something natively python. [...]

Too bad, because memcached implements all the difficult parts already 
(like failover if one node dies), has Python bindings: 
ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/ and just plain works.

> [...] I've started development of such a system, but am wondering if
> something already exists out there.

I don't know of any pure-Python equivalent.

-- Gerhard