The py-prefork-server project is a simple TCP/UDP prefork server library for Python. It is loosely modelled on the excellent Perl library Net::Server::PreFork. Where the Perl library is a bit of an “everything and the kitchen sink” approach, py-prefork-server only manages the network connections and child process distribution. Unlike Net::Server::PreFork, you will have to manage the daemonization, logging, pidfile, privilege dropping, etc. yourself. This was a design decision that makes it a bit more work on the programmer's part, but keeps it very flexible in how you use it.

Speaking of design decisions, another one that I made was not to make much use of the multiprocessing module that is now part of the Python standard library. This was done on purpose because, somewhat unfortunately, I use FreeBSD primarily in my job environment and the semaphore implementation on FreeBSD is not wholly compatible with the Python multiprocessing module. I wanted this to be a usable library across *nix environments as much as possible, which means that I was not, unfortunately, able to use semaphores.

All that aside, this seems to perform quite well in initial testing.

This project is licensed under the GPLv3. A copy of the license is included in the source and is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt.

You can download this package here: py-prefork-server-0.1.1.tar.gz

You can also track this project on github

Please use the bug tracker built in to Github for all bug reports and feature requests

I'm always open to code contributions. Please use the “fork” and “pull request” mechanisms on Github for this.

# tar -xvzf py-prefork-server-X.X.X.tar.gz
# cd py-prefork-server-*
# python setup.py install

Coming soon.