On 7/27/09 8:40 AM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 2:07 pm, Dave Forgac<tylerd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am trying to write an application that will allow a user to launch a >> fairly long-running process (5-30 seconds). It should then allow the >> user to check the output of the process as it is generated. The >> output will only be needed for the user's current session so nothing >> needs to be stored long-term. I have two questions regarding how to >> accomplish this: >> >> 1. What is the best way to launch a background process such as this >> with a Pylons controller? >> >> 2. What is the best way to get the output of the background process >> back to the user? > > Often the better way of doing this is to run a separate persistent > long running process which has an XML-RPC interface and have the web > application communicate with the back end process using XML-RPC. This > avoids all the mess that can often occur with forking off a web > application process.
zc.async (see http://packages.python.org/zc.async/1.5.0/ ) might also be interesting. Wichert. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
