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The processing package

Author: R Oudkerk
Contact: r.m.oudkerk at gmail.com
Url:http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/processing

Description

The processing package is intended to be an analogue of the threading module, but using processes instead of threads. It runs on both Windows and Unix. A sub-package processing.dummy has the same API, but is a thin wrapper around threading.

Communication between processes uses sockets or named pipes. Synchronization primitives are built around the platform's mutexes and semaphores.

Data can be shared between processes either by using shared memory or by using proxies to objects in a server process.

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