Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> I'm using a web server (Karrigell) which is based on the asyncore module. >> I'd like to be able to checkpoint some data (e.g. pickled >> dictionaries) to disk >> from time to time. >> For that I would need to setup a timer which calls a Python >> object/function when its time interval has expired. While this >> function is running I need access to the variables of the server. > > the usual way to do that with asyncore is to add an outer control loop > that calls asyncore.loop with a count argument (or poll directly), and > checks a "task queue" at regular intervals. > > but in your case, it's probably easier to set up a cron job that does > a "wget" against your server with a "secret" URL, and have the server do > the checkpointing whenever that URL is fetched.
Thanks for this ingenious idea, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
