Python multiprocessing server client inter-process communication (IPC) over Queue. https://stackoverflow.com/a/62608473/1592410

multiprocessing-queue-manager-client.py

import multiprocessing
import multiprocessing.managers
import os
import sys
from typing import AnyStr, Union


class QueueManager(multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager):

    def get_queue(self, ident: Union[AnyStr, int, type(None)] = None) -> multiprocessing.Queue:
        pass


delattr(QueueManager, 'get_queue')


def init_queue_manager_client():
    if not hasattr(QueueManager, 'get_queue'):
        QueueManager.register('get_queue')


def main():
    init_queue_manager_client()

    manager: QueueManager = QueueManager(sys.argv[1], authkey=QueueManager.__name__.encode())
    manager.connect()

    message = f"A message from {os.getpid()}"
    print(f"Message to send: {message}")
    manager.get_queue().put(message)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

multiprocessing-queue-manager-server.py

import asyncio
import concurrent.futures
import multiprocessing
import multiprocessing.managers
import queue
import sys
import threading
from typing import Any, AnyStr, Dict, Union


class QueueManager(multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager):

    def get_queue(self, ident: Union[AnyStr, int, type(None)] = None) -> multiprocessing.Queue:
        pass


def get_queue(ident: Union[AnyStr, int, type(None)] = None) -> multiprocessing.Queue:
    global q

    if not ident in q:
        q[ident] = multiprocessing.Queue()

    return q[ident]


q: Dict[Union[AnyStr, int, type(None)], multiprocessing.Queue] = dict()
delattr(QueueManager, 'get_queue')


def init_queue_manager_server():
    if not hasattr(QueueManager, 'get_queue'):
        QueueManager.register('get_queue', get_queue)


def serve(no: int, term_ev: threading.Event):
    manager: QueueManager
    with QueueManager(authkey=QueueManager.__name__.encode()) as manager:
        print(f"Server address {no}: {manager.address}")

        while not term_ev.is_set():
            try:
                item: Any = manager.get_queue().get(timeout=0.1)
                print(f"Client {no}: {item} from {manager.address}")
            except queue.Empty:
                continue


async def main(n: int):
    init_queue_manager_server()
    term_ev: threading.Event = threading.Event()
    executor: concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor = concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor()

    i: int
    for i in range(n):
        asyncio.ensure_future(asyncio.get_running_loop().run_in_executor(executor, serve, i, term_ev))

    # Gracefully shut down
    try:
        await asyncio.get_running_loop().create_future()
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        term_ev.set()
        executor.shutdown()
        raise


if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main(int(sys.argv[1])))

usage.md

Usage:

$ python3 multiprocessing-queue-manager-server.py N
Server address 1: <server-address-1>
Server address 2: <server-address-2>
...

N is a integer indicating how many servers should be created. Copy one of the <server-address-N> output by the server and make it the first argument of each multiprocessing-queue-manager-client.py.

E.g.

$ python3 multiprocessing-queue-manager-client.py <server-address-1>

$ python3 multiprocessing-queue-manager-client.py <server-address-2>

Result on the server side:

Client 1: <item> from <server-address-1>
Client 2: <item> from <server-address-2>
...