kyle.tk wrote: > So I have a central list of python objects that I want to be able to > share between different process that are possibly on different > computers on the network. Some of the processes will add objects to > list and another process will be a GUI that will view objects in the > list. I want this all to happen in real-time (e.g once a processes adds > an object to the list the GUI will see it.) > > What would be the best way to accomplish this. Some of my ideas: > - An XML file r/w-able by all processes > - Send pickled objects between all processes and each keeps it own list > locally > - A ascii type protocol akin to ftp the hands out all the info to the > processes > > Any other ideas? What would work the best
Relational database are useful for sharing data in a controlled way. A better option for arbirary Python objects might be ZODB with ZEO. http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage/guide/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
