> Supposing you have two separate processes running on the same box, > what approach would you suggest to communicate between those two > processes. > > Let me list the ones I know of: > > * Sockets > Advantage: Supported per se in nearly every programming language > without even the need to install additional packages > Disadvantage: Lot's of code to write, and it's kind of silly to > communicate via TCP/IP if the processes run on the same machine. > > * Webservices > Advantage: Relatively easy to use, can work across different > languages > Disadvantage: Even more overhead on the TCP/IP side that simple > sockets, as really bulky SOAP messages need to be passed around. > > * CORBA -- similar to webservices but more complicated to code. > > * Shared memory > I don't know much about this subject. > > Supposing both processes are written in Python, is there any other way > to achieve this? To me, shared memory sound the most suited approach. > But as said, I am still fuzzy in this area. Where can I find more > information on this subject?
Hi, if your requirements are sufficiently light then pylinda might be an easy-to-use solution: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~aw/pylinda/ A simple example is here: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~aw/pylinda/beginner.html HTH, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
