Need some IPC pointers

[bobicanprogram]

On Nov 30, 4:03 pm, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done some research, but I'm not sure what's most appropriate for my
> situation. What I want to do is have a long running process that spawns
> processes (that aren't necessarily written in Python) and communicates
> with them. The children can be spawned at any time and communicate at
> any time. Being able to communicate with non-local processes would be
> nice, but is not necessary. The implementation needs to be
> cross-platform, but child processes will use the same OS as the parent
> during runtime.
> I don't think I'll ever need to transfer anything complicated or large -
> just strings or possibly tuples/lists. I'd rather not go outside the
> standard library (but I'd consider it). I don't need to worry about
> compatibility with older Python versions; if it only works with Python
> 3.2, that's not a problem.
> I'm thinking sockets, but perhaps there's something simpler/easier.
>
> --
> CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 7.0


You might want to take a look at the SIMPL toolkit.
http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html

SIMPL modules can be written (and mixed) in any number of supported
languages including Python, C, C++, JAVA, Tcl/Tk or PHP.   Non local
communication is handled by generic surrogates.  Because of this
surrogate architecture SIMPL modules can often be tested locally and
then deployed into the cloud without any changes.

bob