"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message news:mailman.2155.1256716617.2807.python-l...@python.org... > En Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:04:50 -0300, Paul Hartley <luapyelt...@hotmail.com> > escribió: > >> I have a socket set up between a client and server program. Let's say >> that I serialize (pickle) some data in the client and send it to the >> server with the intention of calling a function in the server to process >> the data. How would one execute the function? This is not for a >> web-based application, BTW -- it's a desktop based application >> My current thought process is (using a generalized example): >> I have a list of numbers in the client and want to find the length of >> the list using the server. There exists a function find_len() in the >> server code. I have a list of numbers [1,2,3]. On the client side, I >> create the tuple ("find_len", [1,2,3]), and serialize it. I pass this >> serialized object via a socket to the server, which unpickles it. The >> server takes the key (find_len) and uses a getattr call to get the >> find_len function. The server then calls find_len([1,2,3]) to get the >> sum. >> def find_len(list_): return >> Are there better ways of accomplishing this (I'm aware that there are >> security pitfalls here...) > > xmlrpc does more or less the same thing, but serializing in xml instead of > pickling. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina >
Also, have a look at RPyc. I've been playing with it for a few days and it sounds it may be what you're after. http://rpyc.wikidot.com/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rpyc/index.html --Tim Arnold
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