Re: Networked Broadcast Messaging

2009-08-13 Thread Greg Taylor
On Aug 11, 9:18 pm, David Bolen db3l@gmail.com wrote: If you want better guarantees, you might look into a distributed message bus like Spread (http://www.spread.org/) or perhaps a messaging protocol like XMPP (http://xmpp.org/) through its PubSub extension.  Both have Python interfaces,

Networked Broadcast Messaging

2009-08-11 Thread squishywaf...@gmail.com
I'm not exactly sure what the term for this would be, but I was wondering if there were any Python packages that supported some kind of ad-hoc message broadcasting. What I'd like to do is something like this: * On a number of workhorse machines, a process listens for network messages from our

Re: Networked Broadcast Messaging

2009-08-11 Thread gregarican
On Aug 11, 2:14 pm, squishywaf...@gmail.com squishywaf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not exactly sure what the term for this would be, but I was wondering if there were any Python packages that supported some kind of ad-hoc message broadcasting. What I'd like to do is something like this: * On a

Re: Networked Broadcast Messaging

2009-08-11 Thread David Bolen
squishywaf...@gmail.com squishywaf...@gmail.com writes: * Machines can come and go. Since messages are not directly sent to a specific IP address from our Python script, the messages are simply broadcasted to those who are there to listen. If nobody is subscribed to the message type being