Standard IPC for Python?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I would like to develop some module for Python for IPC. Socket 
programming howto recommends that for local communication, and I 
personally experienced problems with TCP (see my previous post: "Slow 
network").

I was looking for semaphores and shared memory, but it is not in the 
standard lib. I was also thinking about unix domain sockets, but it is 
not available under windows.

I was looking for non-standard modules as well, but only found a few 
references with insufficient information. For example:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/519626/

The question is: what is the standard way to implement fast and portable 
IPC with Python? Are there tools in the standard lib that can do this?


Thanks,

   Laszlo