Mailing List Archive: Publishing 'live' Python objects

In article <7ekq6v$of7$1@news2.xs4all.nl>, Camiel Dobbelaar
<dobbe@xs3.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I'm looking for advice on the following:
>
> Suppose I have a Python program that essentially does the following:
>
> while 1:
> read from stdin
> <fancy calculations>
> update some buffer objects
>
> I now wish to take a look at snapshots of those buffer objects in
> 'real-time'. (the program continues running and updating the buffers)
> I'd like to do this with HTTP.

I'd suggest you periodically, during <fancy calculations>, copy the
buffer objects to a file, e.g. with pickle. Then you can have another
Python CGI script read these files and display them upon request.

Cheers,
-- Joe

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