multiprocessing: How do I share a dict among multiple processes?

Question

A program that creates several processes that work on a join-able queue, Q, and may eventually manipulate a global dictionary D to store results. (

Answer 1

multiprocessing is not like threading. Each child process will get a copy of the main process's memory. Generally state is shared via communication (pipes/sockets), signals, or shared memory.

Multiprocessing makes some abstractions available for your use case - shared state that's treated as local by use of proxies or shared memory: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#sharing-state-between-processes

Relevant sections:

• http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#shared-ctypes-objects
• http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.managers