execnet 1.0.8

execnet: rapid multi-Python deployment

execnet provides carefully tested means to ad-hoc interact with Python interpreters across version, platform and network barriers. It provides a minimal and fast API targetting the following uses:

• distribute tasks to local or remote CPUs

• write and deploy hybrid multi-process applications

• write scripts to administer a bunch of exec environments

Features

• zero-install bootstrapping: no remote installation required!

• flexible communication: send/receive as well as callback/queue mechanisms supported

• simple serialization of python builtin types (no pickling)

• grouped creation and robust termination of processes

• well tested between CPython 2.4-3.1, Jython 2.5.1 and PyPy 1.1 interpreters.

• fully interoperable between Windows and Unix-ish systems.