[ANNOUNCE] Pyro 1.3 - distributed objects

[Irmen de Jong]

PYRO - Python Remote Objects - version 1.3
by Irmen de Jong


WHAT IS PYRO?

Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. It is a basic Distributed
Object Technology system written entirely in Python, and for use in Python
only. With this, it closely resembles Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
It has less similarity to CORBA - which is a system- and language
independent Distributed Object Technology and has much more to offer than
Pyro or RMI.

The most important changes since the previous version (1.2) are:

- GUID format changed to binary representation (needs less memory and
  network bandwith). Windows32 GUID has been removed (who used it anyway)
- URI no longer contains DNS hostnames, but IP addresses. This works
  better in a DNS-less network.
- It is now possible to specify a hostname on which the servers should
  bind. This is convenient if your machine has multiple network adapters
  (and multiple hostnames).
- Some small bug fixes and documentation updates.


Some interesting features of Pyro are:

- Naming Service which keeps record of the location of objects. The location
  of the NS can be discovered using a broadcast mechanism, amongst others.

- Support for Python types only restricted by those that the standard
  'pickle' module handles (all builtin types, and user created classes).
  Objects as arguments are also supported when the code for those user
  defined classes is also available on the server side.

- Support for all Python argument types (variable argument lists and keyword
  arguments, *args and **keywords).

- Exceptions that occur in the remote object will actually be raised too on
  the client, just as if the error occured locally. Pyro's exception
  transportation mechanism makes this possible.

- Dynamic Proxies.

- Full source code in Python.



WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

>From my Pyro homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/pyro.html

It comes with a Python-style license, but is otherwise free for
commercial and non-commercial use.


REFERENCE:

<P><A HREF="http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/pyro.html">
Pyro 1.3</A> - Distributed Object system for Python (31-Jul-2000)

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Irmen de Jong -- irmen @
                bigfoot.com