> So, the question: How to communicate between two instances of the > python interpreter? Specifically, I need to pass the api and objects > from bdb, the base class for the debugger. One interpreter runs the > ide, the other the debugger and client code. We were talking and just > opening a socket and doing the rest from there came up. This, to me, > (admitedly a java guy) seems like a lot of work. If it were just > setting breakppoints and stepping, well ok. But I also want to have > introspection on the debugger side objects. > > I could use raw sockets and write a bunch of stuff. > > Does anyone have a suggestion about some pythonesque way to tackle > this?
I've found pyro useful for a similar task: I fork, create a pipe and in the child I create a pyro daemon to run a remote object. The uri of that then is passed using the pipe, so that the parent can get a reference to the remote object. I do the whole exercise due to not killable threads in python - so that I can terminate the subprocess. The nice thing about pyro is that it is like corba without the declartive stuff - just use it. You also migh check out the eric ide - it has an out-of-process debugger, so Detlev must have found a solution :) -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
