Inter-process communication

[scott cotton]

This isn't really a python question, but you should look
into the socket module docos and SocketServer library code
for examples in running a server.

scott

On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 02:40:14AM +0000, Phil Hunt wrote:
| 
| Say I have two separate Python programs (i.e. two separate Unix processes
| running the Python interpteter with a *.py file), and I want them to
| talk to each other, how do I do it?
| 
| I have two applications in mind.
| 
| One is where one Python program is running continually, and another is
| started up when an email is received -- the second program asks the
| first one for some information, then formats the results and sends 
| them to the person email was received from. (The 2nd program will
| probably be started up by procmail, & is run whenever an email is 
| received).
| 
| The other application is where one program is running all the time 
| and contains an object database. Other programs may access this database,
| both reading and writing data. The first program's job is to act
| as a database management system -- i.e. to handle issues like when one
| program wants to read the DB while another wants to write it, & issues
| to do with saving the database.
| 
| -- 
| Phil Hunt....philh at vision25.demon.co.uk
| 
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