In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
That sounds like the right sort of thing. I've done this sort of thing myself, though I've been careful not to use any language-specific communication formats. > I worry about two requests > connecting to the 'notify server' at once, though, because i *cannot* > hang my web server. Your Web server won't hang. The particular Web server thread/process waiting for the request to be serviced will be held up, and so of course will the particular user sitting in front of the browser waiting for a response from that thread/process, but nobody else will notice anything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
