execnet: distributed Python deployment and communication

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 targeting the following uses:

• distribute tasks to local or remote processes
• write and deploy hybrid multi-process applications
• write scripts to administer multiple hosts

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

• interoperable between Windows and Unix-ish systems.

• integrates with different threading models, including standard

os threads, eventlet and gevent based systems.