On 18 Sep 2006 12:44:32 -0700, Sandra-24 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A dictionary that can be shared across processes without being > marshaled? > > Is there such a thing already for python? > > If not is there one for C maybe? > > I was just thinking how useful such a thing could be. It's a great way > to share things between processes. For example I use a cache that > subclasses a dictionary. It would be trivial to modify it to work > across processes by changing the base class and the locking mechanism. > > Thanks, > -Sandra
Maybe what you want is something like memcache (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/memcached), which offers a basic in-memory, key-value share that processes (even on different boxes) can connect to. Of course, as with any kind of concurrent work, its going to be far easier to have some restrictions, which memcache has. For example, full python objects being shared isn't a great idea, or even possible in many situations. The closest you could get with something like memcache is to wrap it up in a dictionary-like object and have it pickle things coming in and out, but that won't work for everying and has security concerns. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
