On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:23:17 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: >> 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. >> > > Isn't a pipe's communications one-way, requiring two of them to achieve > full-duplex?
He's talking about multiprocessing.Pipe(), not a Unix pipe. On Unix, multiprocessing.Pipe() uses a socket pair if duplex==True and a pipe if duplex==False. On Windows it uses a named pipe (which can be either unidirectional or bidirectional). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
