> but multiprocessing is a mess

Could you share a little more about your experiences with mp? I'm in the other camp - I use multiprocess in several python applications and am more or less happy with it. My real curiosity I suppose is what data you are trying to pass around that isn't a good candidate for mp.

My own use cases normally resemble something like multiple worker-style processes consuming their workloads from Queue objects, and emitting their results to another Queue object. Usually my initial process is responsible for consuming and aggregating those results, but in some cases the initial process does nothing but coordinate the worker and aggregator processes.