The following two programs were almost-copied from the examples in Python 3.9.2 documentation on multiprocessing.managers.ShareableList. I added an explicit address and authkey to both. 1.py starts the shared memory manager, allocates some shared memory, and sleeps, leaving the manager running in a shell window. 2.py connects to the same shared memory manager and attempts to access the same shared memory, via the names that were displayed by the execution of 1.py (which I hardcoded into 2.py while 1.py was still running). But a TypeError is raised for some obscure reason. ## 1.py below ####################################################### import time from multiprocessing.managers import SharedMemoryManager smm = SharedMemoryManager( ( '127.0.0.1', 23456), b'abc', ) smm.start() sl = smm.ShareableList(range(4)) print( 'sl', repr( sl)) another_sl = smm.ShareableList('alpha') print( 'another_sl', repr( another_sl)) time.sleep( 600) ## 1.py above ####################################################### ## 2.py below ####################################################### from multiprocessing.managers import SharedMemoryManager smm = SharedMemoryManager( ( '127.0.0.1', 23456), b'abc', ) smm.connect() sl = smm.ShareableList( None, name = 'psm_25ffec92') ## name typed in here from the run of 1.py print( 'sl', repr( sl)) another_sl = smm.ShareableList( None, name = 'psm_e5f73dfa') print( 'another_sl', repr( another_sl)) ## 2.py above ####################################################### Here is the run of 1.py: 210402 11:48 /usr/local/ch-tools3/WORK root@guy{1}# python3 1.py sl ShareableList([0, 1, 2, 3], name='psm_25ffec92') another_sl ShareableList(['a', 'l', 'p', 'h', 'a'], name='psm_e5f73dfa') And here is the run of 2.py: 210402 11:52 /usr/local/ch-tools3/WORK root@guy{1}# python3 2.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/ch-tools3/WORK/2.py", line 9, in sl = smm.ShareableList( None, name='psm_25ffec92') TypeError: ShareableList() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name' 210402 11:54 /usr/local/ch-tools3/WORK root@guy{1}# uname -a Linux guy 5.10.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.19-1 (2021-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux 210402 12:21 /usr/local/ch-tools3/WORK root@guy{1}# python3 -V Python 3.9.2