Light (general) Inter-Process Mutex/Wait/Notify Synchronization?

[Paul Rubin]

Gunter Henriksen <gunterhenriksen at gmail.com> writes:
> > Try this: http://nikitathespider.com/python/shm/
> 
> I took a look at that (especially the posix_ipc at
> http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/).  I am hoping not to plug
> something underneath the Python VM; I would rather use a socket, or
> use signals. 

I'm not sure what you mean.  It's just an extension module that you'd
import like any of the stdlib modules.  Certainly anything involving
sockets or signals is going to be a lot slower.