Is it possible to pass a python object to a python program as argument? In my program I would like to start executing an other python program and don't wait until that finishes, only launch it and keep running the original program. The obvious way I can think of it is using the exec* or spawn* function families. However, these are generic functions to start any external program and I was wondering if there was a special way to start a python program (as opposed to an arbitrary program), especially because I would like to pass data to this other program in the form of python objects.
While the original program is running it creates all sorts of data in a nice pythonic way, for example as a class instance with lot of member data, and then I wouldn't want to convert all of this into command line arguments because that would create a huge list. I would like to pass the whole object at once to the second python program which should start doing its thing with it while the original program should keep running. I was looking around for threading and forking but couldn't come up with a clear solution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
