Nobody wrote:
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).
Ah. I was confusing it with os.pipe(). Many thanks.
~Ethan~
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