"Magnus Lycka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
Another one to consider is wddx, quite useful if you need to share data between different languages. --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
