Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-02 Thread Irmen de Jong
John Henry wrote: > On the subject of passing things around, is there a no brainer way of > sending files back and forth over Pyro? > > I am currently using a shared drive to do that. May be I missed that > feature? > Sending files around is just a special case of passing large amounts of data

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread John Henry
On the subject of passing things around, is there a no brainer way of sending files back and forth over Pyro? I am currently using a shared drive to do that. May be I missed that feature? Irmen de Jong wrote: > bruce wrote: > > hi irmen... > > > > happened to come across this post. haven't looke

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Irmen de Jong
bruce wrote: > hi irmen... > > happened to come across this post. haven't looked at pyro. regarding your > 'work packets' could these essentially be 'programs/apps' that that are > requested by the client apps, and are then granted by the dispatch/server > app? > Pyro supports a limited form of

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Decker
On 1 Dec 2006 10:37:39 -0800, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now...if only i could master python gui programming and development ;) > You would short change yourself if you don't check out the other > packages such as Pythoncard, and Dabo. FWIW, Dabo has all of the database connectivi

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread John Henry
TonyM wrote: > > Pyro rocks for that. > > Awesome, ill look into it in greater detail and will most likely use > it. Given what ive seen so far it looks like it will make the > client/server interface fairly easy to write. > Correction: not "fairly easy" - make that "incredibly easy". Even Mi

RE: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread bruce
r 01, 2006 10:05 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: client/server design and advice TonyM wrote: > Lastly, as far as the networking goes, i have seen posts and such about > something called Pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net) and wondered if > that was worth looking into for t

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Irmen de Jong
TonyM wrote: > Lastly, as far as the networking goes, i have seen posts and such about > something called Pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net) and wondered if > that was worth looking into for the client/server interaction. I'm currently busy with a new version of Pyro (3.6) and it already includes

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread TonyM
> Don't use sqlite, use a "real" RDBMS. sqlite is cool, but not really suited > for large amounts of data, and the concurrent access aspects that are dealt > with with an RDBMS for free are not to be underestimated. Would PostgreSQL be suitable in this situation? I hadn't even thought about the

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Josh Bloom
You may also want to take a look at Erlang http://www.erlang.org/ for some ideas of how to do distributed programming. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 1 Dec 2006 06:52:37 -0800, TonyM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently completed the general guidelines for a future project that I >would like to start developing...but I've sort of hit a wall with >respect to how to design it. In short, I want to run through >approximately 5gigs of financial

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> First off, i was wondering if this is a reasonable setup: The entire > process would involve a server which manages which pc is processing > which set of data (which may be a given text file or the like), and a > client application which i would run on a few pc's locally when they > aren't in us

client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread TonyM
I recently completed the general guidelines for a future project that I would like to start developing...but I've sort of hit a wall with respect to how to design it. In short, I want to run through approximately 5gigs of financial data, all of which is stored in a large number of text files. Now