On Jan 13, 2:04 pm, Laszlo Nagy <gand...@shopzeus.com> wrote: > - create a wrapper, using ctypes, /windll / cdll/ to access API functions > - use CreateFileMapping on the page file to create shared memory (a la > windows:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366537.aspx) > - use CreateEvent/WaitForSingleObject for signaling > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682396(VS.85).aspx) > - these should be enough to implement shared memory functions and > message queues under windows, and that might be a quick solution at > least for me. > - it might also be used to emulate the same posix_ipc interface, without > any external dependency added (cygwin). > > All I care about is to create a working message queue. But if you think > that this ctypes hack would be useful for other users, then I can try to > implement it. > > I must tell you that I'm not very familiar with C programming (it was a > long time ago...) and I do not own MSVC. > > (Hmm, can I compile this with mingw?) > > Laszlo
Yes. The flags in the Extending/Embedding C++ section work with mingw. You can create inheritable pipes with the CreatePipe API. 'mmap' provides shared memory, and it's a standard module. You may also like the 'multiprocessing' module, which comes with Python 2.6. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
