Advice request for project
I've been interested in Python for a while now but haven't had an opportunity to use / learn it. I'm tasked now with a project at work that might be my first opportunity. I have to write a ~75 concurrent user document storage app. that allows users to scan documents from locally attached scanners and save to a database for retrieval. I also need to be able to call MS Word with templates and allow the user to save the file to the database. I think I understand that I can interface MS COM for these, correct? My interest is in using FreeBSD/Postgresql/Python as a back end and a Python GUI app on the XP workstations. I'm going to end up adding some non-database functionality to the project in the future that precludes only using odbc to the database. I'll likely end up with some form of inter-user messaging being incorporated before it's over. Is it better to write one server side socket app to handle everything or start via odbc and necessary server side apps later? If anyone can tell me if this project seems appropriate to Python and offer suggestions as to an initial architecture, I'd appreciate it. I'm quite interested in the RAD aspect of the language but quite lost at the moment. (I did just sign up for the Tutor mailing list). Thanks in Advance -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[Pyro] Newbie Question Regarding Pyro
I'm putting together a new project which I'm using to learn Python and have questions about pyro. I like the idea of the abstraction that pyro offers from sockets programming but I cannot determine if I'm giving up some possibly needed functionality. If the server needs to send an unsolicited ad hoc message to a given client, is this possible? (New message or a reminder, for instance) I suppose I could poll a server side list from the client but I'm wondering if the server can initiate the exchange. Also, if a client wishes to converse with another particular client (in a chat or IM situation, for instance). What's a good mechanism for this? Does pyro create a persistent client/server connection? What happens if a pyro client goes down hard? Does it's process continue or is there a cleanup mechanism? Thanks in advance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
