On Jun 5, 11:02 am, pataphor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably not very central to the main intention of your post, > but I see a terminology problem coming up here. It is possible for > python objects to share a reference to some other object. This has > nothing to do with threads or processes, although it can be used as a > *mechanism* for threads and processes to share data.
It is complicated in the case of processes, because the object must be kept in shared memory. The complicating factor is that the base address of the memory mapping, which is not guaranteed to be the same in the virtual address space of different processes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
