On 3 feb, 10:54, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > [News123<news...@free.fr>] > > >>> I wondered what IPC library might be best simplest for following task? > > ... > > >>> xmlrpc seems to be a little heavy for such tasks. > > >>> signals don't allow to exchange data > > >>> a shared memory message queue would probably a good solution, but > >>> python's Multiprocessing.Queue seems to require a common parent process > > [Vinay Sajip] > > >> Gabriel's suggestion is very good; if you need something which is a > >> little more like RPC but still quite lightweight, consider Pyro > >> (http://pyro.sourceforge.net/) > > [pelok...@gmail.com] > > > I've read that Pyro is not safe. > > That's a fairly broad thing to say. I've read lots > of things. What does "is not safe" mean, in any case? > I assume you've got a valid concern in mind which is > worth passing on to a would-be user, but what exactly > is it? FWIW I've used Pyro on and off over the years > without any problems. Certainly my computer's never > blown up as a result of using it. >From its own page: "Pyro has never been truly designed to provide a secure communication mechanism, nor has it had a security review or -test by a security expert." http://pyro.sourceforge.net/features.html
> Obviously Pyro is Python-only so interaction with non-Python > code would be problematic. But the OP only mentions Python > scripts so hopefully that wouldn't be an issue... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
