[Tutor] Remote module loading

[devN]

In fact, that's very close to what I needed. The repo or source would have
version, target audience, and few other parameters. Thanks a zillion. I
will take it up from here. I'll post you guys the complete version sometime
in the future when it's ready.
Cheers!
Farhan

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, 06:26 Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 09/07/2017 12:49 AM, devN wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am newbie in python. I wrote a module which is meant to be run across
> > couple of unix OS variants (redhat, debian, bsd and solaris). The module
> is
> > updated frequently and new features added.
> >
> ...
> > The above code was an alpha and there could be further optimizations
> which
> > I request you to overlook.
> > My requirement is, I have an agent copied in all the UNIX variants and I
> > have done that only once and dont want to do it again (too many machines
> > and no possibility of ansible or chef implementation). The agent
> currently
> > loads the module locally but I need to let all clients know that the
> module
> > is updated with new features, but really can't.
> > So I thought to expose the module as plain text over http from a remote
> > apache container. Is there any way to load the module from remote just as
> > simple as import statement (without using urllib or wget piped to
> python)?
> > This could also mean does PYTHONPATH support http/ftp?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> We had a bit of a discussion not too long ago about the general topic.
> You can search in the list archive for "How to deploy seamless script
> updates to your clients"
>
> You've left a situation that isn't really very flexible since you say
> you don't want to copy the agent again.  Nonetheless, I'll point you to
> a little bit of fiddling I did on this topic that you could just chew on
> and see if it makes any sense.  It's not really "newbie" code.  The
> basic idea is that you have a known location which contains a file with
> information about available releases; the module has a function a
> participating script can call to find out if it has a new version
> available.
>
> Link to my pointer to this:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/tutor@python.org/msg76681.html
>
>
> The rest of the discussion has some other good ideas in it too (a
> version control server may be able to provide a kind of solution).
>
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