Two Pythons talking to each other?

[petravick@FNAL.GOV]

AF_UNIX is likely to me more effcient if that matters.

AF_INET will run about the whole protocol stack, AF_UNIX
is usually implemented to be more like a pipe...

-- DOn

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Charles G Waldman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 11:00:09 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Charles G Waldman <cgw at fnal.gov>
> To: Per Kistler <kistler at fnmail.com>
> Cc: python-list at cwi.nl
> Subject: Re: Two Pythons talking to each other?
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> 
> Per Kistler writes:
>  > Hi Hans
>  > 
>  > One could use sockets with AF_INET, if it runs on another
>  > machine, and sockets with AF_UNIX, if it's on the the same
>  > host.
> 
> There's no particular reason to use AF_UNIX, even if the two processes
> are running on the same node.  AF_INET with a loopback IP address
> works fine, and is portable (not all platforms support unix-domain
> sockets).
>