Two Pythons talking to each other?

[Charles G Waldman]

Per Kistler writes:
 > Hi Hans
 > 
 > One could use sockets with AF_INET, if it runs on another
 > machine, and sockets with AF_UNIX, if it's on the the same
 > host.

There's no particular reason to use AF_UNIX, even if the two processes
are running on the same node.  AF_INET with a loopback IP address
works fine, and is portable (not all platforms support unix-domain
sockets).