Inter-process communication, how?

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On Dec 16, 5:24 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> Yes. Consider this: If you were to run your calculation script from
> the shell prompt [strongly recommended during testing], how would you
> tell it the name of the file? Now look at the docs again.
>

File arguments! Of course, totally forgot about them! Thanks a lot!

>
>
> > PS: both with mmpam and temp file you probably meant that I should
> > hard code some as-weirdest-filename-as-possible two both programs but
> > what if I run the computation several times?
>
> That's mmap, not mmpam. No, Dennis didn't mean that you should hard
> code a filename. Have a look at the tempfile module.

Now I recall I read I somewhere that network communication is so much
faster than disk access (especially on the same machine, as steve
howell suggested) so instead of file names I probably should find out
which port is open to use.