cross platform method of accessing a running process

[Seth Russell]

"Geoff Gerrietts" <geoff at gerrietts.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1021661370.756.python-list at python.org...
> Quoting Seth Russell (seth at robustai.net):
> > I want to have a python process always running on my machine, but allow
cgi
> > processes to come in and access that process.  How do I do this in a
manner
> > that will work on all platforms ?  What python modules will support
this?
>
> I might be wrong (don't think I am), but I believe the only way to do
> this in a truly cross-platform manner is to do it via sockets. You
> open a socket in your long-running process and accept requests. The
> SocketServer module is one of your choices.
>
> Some higher-level protocols, like FastCGI, exist. You may find that
> FastCGI, or something like XML-RPC, allows you to do the sorts of
> things you're looking to do without having to invent a whole protocol
> for information exchange. You might also check into Pyro and Twisted;
> those frameworks provide some functionality overlapping with what
> you're interested in.
>
> More details on what you want will naturally increase the quality of
> the answers you receive.

Thanks for your informative reply ... it got me thinking in the right
direction.  I ended up making a http server class based on the standard
BaseHTTPServer.  Hopefully this will end up being a semantic web
client\server.

Anybody want to help ...
http://robustai.net/mentography/httpBot.py

Seth Russell