Tkinter, X-windows and ebay

[James Stroud]

Bob Greschke wrote:
> When you post something on eBay (and other places) you can use a 'browse' 
> button on a web page to send a picture file from your hard drive to them for 
> inclusion in your listing.  Can the same kind of thing (not the same exact 
> thing, of course) be done with a Python/Tkinter program that is running on a 
> remote machine (that you logged into to start the program), but that's just 
> using your computer's display (with X11 on a Mac, X-whatever on Linux, 
> X-Win32 on Windows, etc.)?  I've got an inventory program that runs this way 
> and it would be nice if users could create a text file on their machine, but 
> then have the program read that file and, for example, update item 
> quantities according to information in that file.  Things like that.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 

I think xml-rpc was designed to address these kinds of issues:

http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/

James