Steve Potter wrote: > I'm working on a project to create a central administration interface > for several websites located on different physical servers. > > You can think of the websites as a blog type application. My > administration application will be used to create new blog posts with > associated media (images, etc..) > > So I am thinking to setting up a script on each of the sites to "phone > home" once per day and download any new posts and media files. > > I am thinking of transmitting the post data in an xml format that > could then be decoded an recorded into the database on the slave > site. Are there any easy ways to encode a python dictionary to and > from xml? > > For the media files I am thinking that the administration interface > would also provide an xml file with a list of all of the media files > required along with an http path to retrieve them and a checksum of > some sort to verify that they were downloaded correctly. > > Basically I am trying to figure out if anything already exists to > perform some of these functions or if I have to make them from > scratch. I know none of it should be too hard, but I hate to re- > invent the wheel. > > Thanks, > > Steven Potter
It sounds like JSON would be perfect for this. For working with it in Python, the simplejson module is popular: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson> -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
