papyros 0.1

Papyros is a small platform independent parallel processing Python package, providing a master-slave model. Clients can submit jobs to a master object which is monitored by one or more slave objects that do the real work and return the processed jobs back to the master. Two main implementations are currently provided, one using multiple threads and one multiple processes in one or more hosts (through Pyro). The primary design goal is simplicity: a user can replace a time consuming loop in a single-threaded single-process program with the equivalent parallel version in a few lines of code, with minimal boilerplate overhead.