Communicating between two computers

[David Bolen]

"donotspam-jen at personic.com" <dnotspam-jen at personic.com> writes:

> I've read a little about SOAP, but I think that my needs are probably a lot
> simpler than that.  The easiest way to accomplish this is to setup a Web
> server on each of the build machines, too, I guess ... but I was hoping that
> I could just have the scripts that run on the build servers run as NT
> services.

Well, there's probably no end to the number of protocols and methods
by which you could get the machines to talk, but given that it's
Python invoking Python, you might take a peek at Fredrik Lundh's
XML-RPC library.  XML-RPC was sort of the precursor to SOAP.  Similar
in concept, but it's dirt simple to get two Python processes
communicating (calling arbitrary methods with any Python objects and
returning any Python objects).

See http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/index.htm.

I imagine you could run a server utilizing this within a service using
the PythonService module included in the Pythonwin extensions without
too many problems.

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