[Zope] pickle passing over a socket

[Tres Seaver]

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David Bear wrote:
> It seems to me that it could be usefull to have a zope method for passing
> python pickles to external processes through a unix domain socket. My
> thinking was to use this as a means to abstract a data base connection. Yes,
> I know there are zsql methods, sqlalchemy and other products to do this. But
> my thought was to have a generilzed method for just passing a pickle to an
> external process that could do anything with it. Perhaps it could pass a
> pickle to a queue that would handle the pickle if the site need
> some high volume handling of data.
> 
> Then one could have another python process listening on the socket -- ready
> to receive pickles for zope.
> 
> Does this sound like something that could be usefull -- or is it reduntant
> with some other feature that zope may have for sending data to external
> processes?

Anything like Pyro?

  http://pyro.sourceforge.net/


Tres.
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