On 11/30/2011 3:32 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > You could also use threads and pipes. (I'm not actually > sure how threads+pipes works, but I'm told that it's a viable > approach). Sounds interesting, but I'm not familiar with threading (not that I wouldn't be willing to learn). Is it even possible to pipe into a running process, though?
> For what it's worth, I wrote something potentially similar using Twisted > and AMP. AMP is an Asynchronous Messaging Protocol: this basically > means that clients and servers can send messages to each other at any > time in any order. Twisted makes sure that the right response gets > associated with the right message. This can be very convenient -- you > might request something from another process, and then to compute its > answer it might ask for some additional information from you, and then > you give it that information, and it sends back the final result. > > All the communication is done over TCP, usually using Twisted. So this > does involve bringing in a fairly large dependency. Sounds like overkill, but I'll take a look. -- CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 7.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list