Comunicate processes with python

[Adrián Bravo Navarro]

Hi,

Does the absence of answers mean that the unique way to let the console
invoke daemon functions is trough dbus or sockets? I wonder if python
provides any other mechanism to get this.

Thanks
Adrian

2008/3/17, Adrián Bravo Navarro <adrianbn at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> let me introduce ourselves first. We are a smallish group of students
> working on a open source snapshot/backup system (www.hdlorean.com or
> http://launchpad.net/hdlorean). We are using python for almost all of the
> code and for all of us this is the first python project we develop. At this
> point I must say that we are really happy with python, as it is a fast
> learning and easy language.
>
> Now I've just bored most of you, I would like to make a question to the
> list. Let me portray the scenario:
>
> We have a daemon (hdloreand) running. We also have a console so you can
> send commands to the daemon and retrieve some info. At this moment, that
> console is connecting to the daemon via Dbus. We would like to avoid this,
> because it will solve some collateral problemas as well as will guarantee
> that the comunication will work when no X server and no dbus session is
> running.
>
> Is there any simple way to achieve this goal? We've been thinking of
> sockets but Im not conviced at all with that.
>
> Thanks
> Adrian
>
> PS: Im sorry for my english.
>
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