Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-02 Thread Irmen de Jong
John Henry wrote: On the subject of passing things around, is there a no brainer way of sending files back and forth over Pyro? I am currently using a shared drive to do that. May be I missed that feature? Sending files around is just a special case of passing large amounts of data to

client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread TonyM
I recently completed the general guidelines for a future project that I would like to start developing...but I've sort of hit a wall with respect to how to design it. In short, I want to run through approximately 5gigs of financial data, all of which is stored in a large number of text files.

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
First off, i was wondering if this is a reasonable setup: The entire process would involve a server which manages which pc is processing which set of data (which may be a given text file or the like), and a client application which i would run on a few pc's locally when they aren't in use.

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 1 Dec 2006 06:52:37 -0800, TonyM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently completed the general guidelines for a future project that I would like to start developing...but I've sort of hit a wall with respect to how to design it. In short, I want to run through approximately 5gigs of financial

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Josh Bloom
You may also want to take a look at Erlang http://www.erlang.org/ for some ideas of how to do distributed programming. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread TonyM
Don't use sqlite, use a real RDBMS. sqlite is cool, but not really suited for large amounts of data, and the concurrent access aspects that are dealt with with an RDBMS for free are not to be underestimated. Would PostgreSQL be suitable in this situation? I hadn't even thought about the

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Irmen de Jong
TonyM wrote: Lastly, as far as the networking goes, i have seen posts and such about something called Pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net) and wondered if that was worth looking into for the client/server interaction. I'm currently busy with a new version of Pyro (3.6) and it already includes a

RE: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread bruce
@python.org Subject: Re: client/server design and advice TonyM wrote: Lastly, as far as the networking goes, i have seen posts and such about something called Pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net) and wondered if that was worth looking into for the client/server interaction. I'm currently busy

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread John Henry
TonyM wrote: snip Pyro rocks for that. Awesome, ill look into it in greater detail and will most likely use it. Given what ive seen so far it looks like it will make the client/server interface fairly easy to write. Correction: not fairly easy - make that incredibly easy. Even Micky

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Decker
On 1 Dec 2006 10:37:39 -0800, John Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now...if only i could master python gui programming and development ;) You would short change yourself if you don't check out the other packages such as Pythoncard, and Dabo. FWIW, Dabo has all of the database connectivity

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Irmen de Jong
bruce wrote: hi irmen... happened to come across this post. haven't looked at pyro. regarding your 'work packets' could these essentially be 'programs/apps' that that are requested by the client apps, and are then granted by the dispatch/server app? Pyro supports a limited form of mobile

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread John Henry
On the subject of passing things around, is there a no brainer way of sending files back and forth over Pyro? I am currently using a shared drive to do that. May be I missed that feature? Irmen de Jong wrote: bruce wrote: hi irmen... happened to come across this post. haven't looked at