gistfile1.pyw

#Server
from multiprocessing.connection import Listener
from array import array

data =  {}

address = ('localhost', 6000)
listener = Listener(address, authkey='s')

conn = listener.accept()
work = True
while work:
    command = conn.recv()
    if command == 'put':
        print 'the command was put'
        data['key'] = 'value'
    elif command == 'get':
        conn.send(data['key'])
    elif command == 'exit':
        print 'exiting'
        work = False

conn.close()
listener.close()

#Client
from multiprocessing.connection import Client
from array import array

address = ('localhost', 6000)
conn = Client(address, authkey='s')

conn.send('put')
conn.send('get')
print conn.recv()
conn.send('exit')

conn.close()