[socal-piggies] From Will Roscoe's ad-hoc meeting

[Dan Stromberg]

Christopher Mahan wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com 
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>     The multiprocessing module makes it pretty easy to communicate
>     between processes.
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> Is it limited to the same machine or does it work on the lan / 
> intranet / internet over HTTP(S)?
I've only written two programs with it, and didn't study more than what 
I needed about it, but:
1) I believe sockets are suggested for host to host.  The module has 
some sort of socket support I believe (at least the doc talked about 
sockets), though what it adds beyond the usual socket module, I have 
little idea
2) The module allows you to put scalars and arrays of fundamental types 
in shared memory.
3) The module has a Queue datastructure that's intended to be much like 
what you'd use with threads

I've used and been happy with #2 and #3 in the multiprocessing module.  
I've used sockets for things, but not multiprocessing's socket stuff.
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