RMI and Python

[Patrick Phalen]

On Sun, 01 Aug 1999, Tim Egbert wrote:
> Java is able to do remote method invocation (RMI) which is a neat concept.
> It is the basis for Jini, another neat idea.  Does Python have anything
> like RMI?

If you can forego the concept of agents, take a look at

www.xmlrpc.com

and

www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc

Zope, the Python-based application server platform (www.zope.org), now
includes XML-RPC capability in the core