I'm not sure to understand what you want. Is it your server process that will read the shelve file ? You may give more informations about your problem, but i can give you some hints.
In order to create a TCP server, you can use SocketServer which is in the builtin library (http://docs.python.org/library/socketserver.html). I'm not sure about how shelve manage concurrency, but in my opinion, you'll need to create a single process or thread which manage read and write operation in order to avoiding race conditions. Cheers, Feld Boris 2011/3/23 T <misceveryth...@gmail.com>: > Hello all, I am writing a Windows service that needs to 1) Act as a > server (TCP), and write to a shelve file, and 2) Read that same shelve > file every x number of seconds. My thought is to create 2 separate > classes (1 for the socket server and writing to the shelve file, and > another to read the file and perform other requested actions) - > however, I need to make sure they are both running concurrently. I'm > sure threading is involved, but my experience with it has been > minimal, so any help to steer me in the right direction is greatly > appreciated. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
