Event notification system - where to start ?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

geskerrett at hotmail.com wrote:

> We have been asked to develop and application for a client that is a
> 'notification" system.  We would like to use python, but are struggling
> to find the right starting point.  Any suggestions, tips or sample code
> would be appreciated.


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> We also looked at the asyncore and asynchat, but are having difficulty
> gettng starting with these.  If someone has a working example of a
> "chat" server using these modules they could share it would be very
> helpful.
> 
> So ... any suggestions ?

I just implemented such a thing using Pyro[1]. I in fact rolled out my own
event-system, but I guess I could have used the pyro event system[2]
instead.

Diez

[1] http://pyro.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://pyro.sourceforge.net/manual/6-eventserver.html