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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst index cba576a..2ba42b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.rst @@ -342,3 +342,30 @@ behind it: >>> c.shm.close() >>> c.shm.unlink() +The following examples demonstrates that ``ShareableList`` +(and underlying ``SharedMemory``) objects +can be pickled and unpickled if needed. +Note, that it will still be the same shared object. +This happens, because the deserialized object has +the same unique name and is just attached to an existing +object with the same name (if the object is still alive): + + >>> import pickle + >>> from multiprocessing import shared_memory + >>> sl = shared_memory.ShareableList(range(10)) + >>> list(sl) + [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + + >>> deserialized_sl = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(sl)) + >>> list(deserialized_sl) + [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + + >>> sl[0] = -1 + >>> deserialized_sl[1] = -2 + >>> list(sl) + [-1, -2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + >>> list(deserialized_sl) + [-1, -2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + + >>> sl.shm.close() + >>> sl.shm.unlink() |