Developing a network protocol with Python

[Lawrence Oluyede]

Il 2005-12-13, Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <gandalf at designaproduct.biz> ha scritto:
> I need to send Python objects too. They are too elaborate to convert 
> them to XML. (They are using cyclic weak references and other Python 
> specific stuff.) I can be sure that on both sides, there are Python 
> programs. Is there any advantage in using XML if I already need to send 
> Python objects? Those objects cannot be represented in XML, unless 
> pickled into a CDATA string.

If you have to send Python objects over the wire the best way is to have
twisted on both ends and use twisted's PerspectiveBroker, see:
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/pb-intro.html



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