Process intercommunication

[Mikael Olofsson]

Thanks Greg!

On 05-Nov-2001 Grzegorz Dostatni wrote:
 >  For interprocess communications You have a couple of options. If A can
 >  start B at a proper time You could solve Your problem with pipes. (using
 >  popen I believe). If B is started differently, You could look into
 >  signals to catch A's attention.  The easisest thing though it so make A a
 >  server and make B connect on a given port.
 >  An example of a server and a client is at:
 >  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/socket-example.html

Tried it, works perfectly.

 >  It is quite possible to have a client and a server on the same machine. If
 >  You're not going to have more than 10 processes trying to access Your
 >  server (at a time) I'd recommend using the threading module to make things
 >  a bit easier on Yourself. (watch out for mutual exclusion though ;-) ).

I will try that too.

 >  A reading list (assuming You'd like to go with sockets)
 >  
 >  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-socket.html (socket module)
 >  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-thread.html (thread module)
 >  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-threading.html (threading
 >  module)
 >  
 >  The last one is a higher level  version of the second one.

Looks like I will find all I need in the proposed reading. Thanks again.

/Mikael

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