Unix Domain Sockets in Python

sweiss · 2005-06-13 10:23:28

Hello (again).
I'm looking for some information regarding usage of unix domain sockets (or file sockets) via Python. I've googled for ages but I can't find any example.

Can anyone please give me a quick overview?

Thanks again.

cmp · 2005-06-13 10:32:13

it isn't that hard, but the documentation on the python page is a bit wired (no explanation of returns types, etc.)
but did you have a look at this page?

sweiss · 2005-06-13 10:38:11

I have, but it doesn't relate to file sockets. I don't quite know how am I supposed to work with those, how to create them, how to write to them or how to read from them.

Can you please explain these?

Thanks.

cactus · 2005-06-13 16:26:51

do you need a file socket, or could you get by with a pipe?

phrakture · 2005-06-13 17:58:35

Man, I wrote this post then the network went down at work... and couldn't post it... skipping all the examples I had:

do what the article has *exactly* but change "AF_INET" to "AF_UNIX" - done...

you should really delve into BSD style sockets if you want to do unix-socket based IPC...

also, python is generally portable. Unix domain sockets are not. The article points to using TCP sockets for IPC, which is a good idea with python because *everything* supports TCP sockets

sweiss · 2005-06-13 19:12:31

The application I'm working on is an updater for Arch, so portability is not an issue

I guess I'll use TCP sockets then after all.

Arch Linux

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Unix Domain Sockets in Python

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