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 The processing package
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:Author:  R Oudkerk
:Contact: r.m.oudkerk at gmail.com
:Url:     http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/processing


Description
===========

The `processing` package is intended to be a portable analogue of
the `threading` module, but using processes instead of threads.  A
sub-package `processing.dummy` has the same API, but is a thin
wrapper around `threading`.

Objects can be shared between processes by using a *manager*.
Communication between processes is achieved using sockets (or
alternatively on Windows by named pipes).

Contents
========

* `Introduction <intro.html>`_
* `Package reference <processing-ref.html>`_
   + `Process objects <process-objects.html>`_
   + `Manager objects <manager-objects.html>`_
   + `Proxy objects <proxy-objects.html>`_
   + `connection sub-package <connection-ref.html>`_

* `Programming guidelines <programming-guidelines.html>`_

* `Tests <tests.html>`_

See also
========

* `Readme <../README.txt>`_
* `Installation instructions <../INSTALL.txt>`_
* `Changelog <../CHANGES.txt>`_
* `Licence <../COPYING.txt>`_

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