Evan Klitzke wrote: ........ > > Another method that you can use is to open up a socket on some > predetermined port (presumably above 1024), and then have your program > try to connect to that port and "talk" to the other program to > determine whether or not to run (or whether to do some of the > remaining work, etc.). >
that might work, but this runs on someone's java solaris box with possible many connections going on. I doubt I'd be able to guarantee a particular port. -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
