from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager import Queue tasks_q = Queue.Queue() results_q = Queue.Queue() slaves_q = Queue.Queue() master_q = Queue.Queue() class QueueManager(BaseManager): pass QueueManager.register('get_tasks_q', callable=lambda:tasks_q ) QueueManager.register('get_results_q', callable=lambda:results_q) QueueManager.register('get_slaves_q', callable=lambda:slaves_q ) QueueManager.register('get_master_q', callable=lambda:master_q ) def get_qs(m): """ returns all relevant queues """ return (m.get_tasks_q(), m.get_results_q(), m.get_master_q(), m.get_slaves_q())