Communicating between two computers

[Adam Ruth]

You can run Python as an NT service quite simply using the brilliant PyWin
extensions.  There's an exe called pythonservice.exe that handles all of the
nasty details.  Running a service has never been simpler.  You can easily
implement BaseHTTPServer within a service.

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Adam Ruth
InterCation, Inc.
www.intercation.com


"Moshe Zadka" <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.10.10007011639300.17559-100000 at sundial...
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, donotspam-jen at personic.com wrote:
>
> > FYI, I'm doing all of this on Windows NT, in case that makes a
difference
> > ...
> >
> > Is there a good way to get a script on one computer to talk to a script
on
> > another computer?  The process I'm thinking of is pretty simple ... I
want a
> > script on a Web server to be able to send a command to a build server to
> > start a build process.  I'd also like the Web server to be able to query
the
> > build servers to find out their status (so that two builds do not run at
> > once on the same machine, for example).
>
> Have a look at my signature: like most everything I say, it is only half
> a joke. Python on two computers talking in plain old HTTP is a powerful
> concept. Just derive from BaseHTTPServer on one end, and implement only
> the do_GET() method, and use urllib at the other end to transmit requests.
>
> Both our inhouse build and backup systems are built (more or less) on
> these principals.
>
> I have no idea if you can run a Python script as an NT service: I'll leave
> that to those who know windows.
> --
> Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
> There is no GOD but Python, and HTTP is its prophet.
>
>