Bug#693675: ITP: pushy - a simple interface for connecting two python interpreters
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@debian.org>
* Package name : pushy
Version : 0.5.1
Upstream Author : Andrew Wilkins <axwalk@gmail.com>
* URL : http://packages.python.org/pushy/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Description : a simple interface for connecting two python interpreters
Pushy provides applicaton developers with a simple interface for
connecting two Python interpreters, either on the local host, or
over a network. Once connected, the interpreters may access objects
in each other, as if they were local. Where objects are mutable
(i.e. may change over time), then objects are “proxied”. This means
that a local object is created that mirrors the remote object,
and sends all local function/attribute access calls to the remote
object. Special care has been taken to proxy builtin types properly,
so that proxied objects may be passed to Python’s various builtin
functions.
Pushy contains multiple transports for connecting interpreters, as
well as a means for users to provide their own transport modules.
Builtin transports are provided for connecting to local interpreters,
and to remote interpreters via SSH, named pipes (using SMB) on
Microsoft Windows, and over plain old TCP/IP sockets (using daemon).
One of the most useful features of Pushy is that it will take care
of starting the target Python interpreter for you, depending on
which transport is selected. Of particular note, the SSH transport
will start a remote Python interpreter and initialise a Pushy
connection, without having Pushy installed on the remote system.
Similarly, the local transport will create a new Python interpreter
on the local host.
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Martin Gerhard Loschwitz
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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