13: Add a remote engine variant to evaluate python script in a remote process

[sundararajana]

Adding a remote python engine variant with which we can evaluate, call functions/methods, get/set variables in a remote python process. Please see details in the bug report DETROIT-13

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• DETROIT-13: Add a remote engine variant to evaluate python script in a remote process (Enhancement - P3)

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• Jaikiran Pai (@jaikiran - Committer) ⚠️ Review applies to 3f02c50b

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13: Add a remote engine variant to evaluate python script in a remote process

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[jaikiran]

I don't have much knowledge of the Python multiprocessing APIs, but overall this looks reasonable to me.

I have added a copyright year related comment inline.

[sundararajana]

/integrate

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit f0e26a5.

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@sundararajana Pushed as commit f0e26a5.

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