How to write an API for a Python application?
Hello I would like to create an API for a piece of Python code. The API is for use by non Python code. It should support interaction in both directions, both accessing functions on the API and the ability for the API to raise events on its clients. What is the best way to do that? I though of doing it as a python COM server but I am not familiar with COM and I saw that implementing a COM server with events in python is not trivial. Is there a better (or simpler) solution?What are the common ways for doing that? Any answer would be greatly appreciated. Regards Gary -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Sending an event from a python COM server to a VB COM client
Hello I am trying to send an event from a Python COM server to a VB (or VB.NET) COM client. I am a newbie both in VB and in python. Can anyone give me a simple (but complete) code example both of the Python server side and the VB client side for raising a single event. Any answer would be highly appreciated. Regards Gary -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Sending an event from a python COM server to a VB COM client
Thank you Steve. I have already went over that book, I didn't find there an example of sending events from a python server to a VB client (just direct function calls from the VB client to the Python server, which is trivial). And in any case, since I am a newbie both in VB and in Python, I am really looking for an example that will spell things out for me. There's a lot of 'wrapping' happening under the hood in this technology and I am kind of lost between what is done for me on each side and what I should explicitly do my self. Thanks again for taking the time to answer. Gary "Stephen Prinster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gary Kshepitzki wrote: >> Hello >> I am trying to send an event from a Python COM server to a VB (or VB.NET) >> COM client. >> I am a newbie both in VB and in python. >> Can anyone give me a simple (but complete) code example both of the >> Python >> server side and the VB client side for raising a single event. >> >> Any answer would be highly appreciated. >> Regards >> Gary >> >> > > I suggest the book _Python Programming on Win32_ by Mark Hammond and > Andy Robinson. There is a chapter online and I believe it even includes > the example you need. > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html > > Steve P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How to write an API for a Python application?
Hello I would like to create an API for a piece of Python code. The API is for use by non Python code. It should support interaction in both directions, both accessing functions on the API and the ability for the API to raise events on its client. What is the best way to do that? I though of doing it as a python COM server but I am not familiar with COM and I saw that implementing a COM server with events in python is not trivial for me. Is there a better (or simpler) solution? What are the common ways for doing that? Any answer would be highly appreciated. Regards Gary -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to write an API for a Python application?
Thanks Its an interesting solution but I need a more closely coupled solution, with real time events, so the communication really has to be 2 ways, and not by polling. Thanks for putting the time and though. Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > While not sure of the behavior you are trying to achieve, XML-RPC comes > to mind. But it's based on HTTP protocol in which the client puts > request to the server which has to respond. The server cannot initiate > interactions. > XML-RPC is both widely avalaible, and very easy to implement. > > NOTE: in order for the server to raise events in the client, the client > needs only raise periodically a *need-anything-from-me* type of request > which permits the server to return its request in response to the > client. Naturally this solution makes superfluous calls takes some > bandwidth, so it might not be appropriate in every circumstance. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
