Here's my situation: I'm writing a simple reminder bot which will IM me based on input from a web server. Right now, I have a simple AIM bot written using twisted 2 words. It logs into AIM and can send/receive messages. There's part 1.
I have a django server running under mod_python through apache, which is my web server. Part 2. How do I get part 2 to talk to part 1?? Ideally I'd like to fire off a (signal/message/data) from mod_python to a separate process running the twisted AIM bot, so that the mod_python thread(s) can just forget about the whole thing and let someone else deal with talking with AIM. I can't really just include the twisted AIM bot from django, because mod_python (as I understand it) runs different requests on different threads, and I don't want to spawn a bot and log into IM each request. I can't run the whole thing through twisted, either. I'm thinking about coding some sort of 'local notify server' in twisted (basically just listening to a socket and then passing the information to the IM bot), then connecting to it via a python socket in django and passing some serialized/pickled data. I worry about two requests connecting to the 'notify server' at once, though, because i *cannot* hang my web server. Thoughts? Is there a better solution? Is there a simpler way to do this (a way with built-in serialization?) Thanks for any help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
