[SciPy-user] Equivalent of the X Public Access Mechanism

[Francis Burton]

Has anything like the X Public Access Mechanism been
implemented for/in python?

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/saotng/about_xpa.html

"XPA allows an Xt program to define named public access points
through which data and commands can be exchanged with external
programs."

Basically, GUI programs running as separate processes can be
called as widgets, in much the same way as gnuplot is currently
used within scipy except that XPA allows bidirectional flow of
data. The underlying mechanism is based on sockets and TCP/IP,
so it is networkable.

I think it would be a very nice addition to scipy, facilitating
its extensibility via (and interfacing with) 3rd party programs.

Francis