On Aug 11, 9:18 pm, David Bolen wrote:
>
> If you want better guarantees, you might look into a distributed
> message bus like Spread (http://www.spread.org/) or perhaps a
> messaging protocol like XMPP (http://xmpp.org/) through its PubSub
> extension. Both have Python interfaces, though I have
"squishywaf...@gmail.com" writes:
> * Machines can come and go. Since messages are not directly sent to a
> specific IP address from our Python script, the messages are simply
> broadcasted to those who are there to listen. If nobody is subscribed
> to the message type being sent, nothing happens
On Aug 11, 3:00 pm, Kushal Kumaran
wrote:
> You could use the socket module to broadcast. Using INADDR_BROADCAST
> as the destination should do it. I fail to recollect whether that
> will need root privileges...
Awesome, I think this is exactly what I'm looking for. Much
appreciated!
Greg
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:04 AM, gregarican wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2:14 pm, "squishywaf...@gmail.com"
> wrote:
>> I'm not exactly sure what the term for this would be, but I was
>> wondering if there were any Python packages that supported some kind
>> of ad-hoc message broadcasting. What I'd like t
On Aug 11, 2:14 pm, "squishywaf...@gmail.com"
wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what the term for this would be, but I was
> wondering if there were any Python packages that supported some kind
> of ad-hoc message broadcasting. What I'd like to do is something like
> this:
>
> * On a number of workhor
I'm not exactly sure what the term for this would be, but I was
wondering if there were any Python packages that supported some kind
of ad-hoc message broadcasting. What I'd like to do is something like
this:
* On a number of workhorse machines, a process listens for network
messages from our broa
