2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Oct 25, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Michael Sparks wrote:

> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
>> In the module multiprocessing environment could you not use shared
>> memory, then, for the large shared data items?
>
> If the poshmodule had a bit of TLC, it would be extremely useful for  
> this,
> since it does (surprisingly) still work with python 2.5, but does  
> need a
> bit of TLC to make it usable.
>
> http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/

Last time I checked that was Windows-only. Has that changed?

The only IPC modules for Unix that I'm aware of are one which I  
adopted (for System V semaphores & shared memory) and one which I  
wrote (for POSIX semaphores & shared memory).

http://NikitaTheSpider.com/python/shm/
http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/


If anyone wants to wrap POSH cleverness around them, go for it! If  
not, maybe I'll make the time someday.

Cheers
Philip