On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:28 pm, Etienne Labuschagne wrote:
Thanks for the feedback Dieter and Terry,
Using a cron job is probably the fastest, easiest and most pragmatic way for us programmers. My job as a programmer, however, is to make life even easier for my clients. My clients mostly use Windows and gets a glazed look in their eyes when I start talking about running this script and running that script.
Actually, in my experimental tests, I launched the heartbeat script I showed you via os.system() from a trigger in __setstate__ in my product's instance. So it doesn't require the user to do anything extra. I haven't tested this in a production environment, but it worked in my prototype (I was using this to have a "store" app interface to the credit processor by sending an email, then catching the reply -- so it had to check the mailbox periodically. In my tests, I was using my email aliasing to just forward the email back to the server's listening address). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com