On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Navkirat Singh <navkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering what are the differences between queues and pipes implemented > using multiprocessing python module. Am I correct if I say, in pipes, if > another process writes to one receiving end concurrently, then an error will > be raised and in queues the later processes data will just queued up?
basically a Queue is a syncronization primitive used to share and pass data to and from parent/child processes. A pipe is as the name suggests, a socket pair connected end-to-end allowing for full-duplex communications. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
