exhuma.twn wrote: > * Sockets > Advantage: Supported per se in nearly every programming > language without even the need to install additional packages > Disadvantage: Lot's of code to write,
Who's Lot? :) No, seriously. Why would you think that it's much to write? It can, especially using Python, be as easy as using a file. > and it's kind of silly to communicate via TCP/IP if the > processes run on the same machine. Why? - Do you worry about CPU cycles, memory, ...? - Who forces you to use TCP? > Supposing both processes are written in Python, is there any other > way to achieve this? It depends on what those processes need to share. What you need can range from a simple unix socket connection to a full-fledged SQL database server. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #301: appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list