[Sori Schwimmer] > I am working on an application which involves > interprocess communication. More to the point, > processes should be able to notify other processes > about certain situations, so the "notifyees" would be > able to act in certain ways. > > As processes are distributed on several machines, in > different physical locations, my thinking was: > a) set a message manager (MM) > b) all the participants will register with MM, so MM > will have their host address and their pid on host > c) when someone needs to send a notification, it is > sent to MM, and MM it's doing the job
[snip] > Life is a struggle. Programming in Python shouldn't > be. Ergo, I'm doing something wrong. > > Any advice? Rather than rolling your own, have you considered using the spread module: robust, tested, efficient and no infrastructure development required. http://www.zope.org/Members/tim_one/spread/ http://www.python.org/other/spread/ The latter page has links to the original C spread module, which has documentation, FAQs, etc. -- alan kennedy ------------------------------------------------------ email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
