Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: ductworks
Version: 0.0.1a4
Summary: A simple IPC library for less simple situations.
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/rpcope1/ductworks
Author: Robert Cope
Author-email: rpcope1@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Networking
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License


Ductworks is an IPC library for Python, similar to the Pipe object from the multiprocessing library. Like Pipe,
ductworks exposes a MessageDuct API with very simple send and receive semantics for end users (no worrying about
streams, each send call corresponds to one recv call), while easily allowing for more flexible usage like having
a communication channel between a parent python process and a python process in a child subprocess (separated by
both fork(2) and exec(2)). As well ductworks allows users to freely choose their serialization library (and uses
JSON by default) and uses regular BSD sockets; this makes connecting up programs in different languages (or even on
different systems) relatively straightforward. Ductworks aims to make it simple to get socket pairs, when inheriting
a anonymous socket pair is difficult or outright infeasible, and to make IPC easier and less stressful.


