Monika Jisswel wrote: > Thanks or your replies, in fact I need my server to recieve queries from > some 40 clients, process the recieved text (some calculations) & send a > response back to them, in my previouse application I used a database, > (they entered thier queries into the db & my calculating script looks at > new records in db every 2 minutes & inserts the answers into the db > too so that the users could see them on thier interface. but now I need > to move to a server/client design because at the time i had created this > program I didn't have much time & I had to put it into production.
Assuming your 40 clients represent real human users, and not automated processes, I almost always approach this kind of problem with a web application, usually a cgi script or simple mod_python handler. That way I can spend more time solving the problem at hand, and less on client/server design details or client installation/upgrade scheduling. But then browsers and web servers are very common in our environment. > Right now I am working on some code using the SOCKET module as it was > the only module that allows inter-process communication & was simple > enough for me to understand how it works. In that case, you might want to have a look at the SocketServer module also. http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-SocketServer.html HTH, Marty _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
