Eric Wertman schrieb:
 > A simple yet dangerous and rather rubbish solution (possibly more of a
 > hack than a real implementation) could be achieved by using a
 > technique described above:
 >
 > <?php
 >         echo exec('python foo.py');

 This will spawn a Python interpreter, and not be particularly
 efficient. You could just as well have used CGI.

I'm  in a bit of a similar situation.  I decided to use python to
solve problems where I could, in a more regimented fashion.  For
instance, I have a set of functions in a script, table.py.  After I
set up mod_python to handle requests to a single directory with
python, I can call this with:

<?php include("http://localhost/py/table/nodes";); ?>

embedded in the page.  This is probably pretty hackish too, but at
least it doesn't spawn a new process, and I don't have to solve things
that aren't related to display with php.

You mean opening a local-loop socket instead of a anonymous socket, hogging at least another apache process and then possibly spawning another process if the python-script is implemented as real CGI - not fast_cgi or python - is the better solution? I doubt that. More wasteful in all aspects, with small to any gain at all.

Unix uses pipes as IPC all the time. I fail to see why that is "rubbish".

Diez
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