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I need some advice on python

Aug 6, 1999, 6:52 AM

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I jave just discovered this morning that for the foreseeable future my
work life will revolve around mobile agents (Worse things to
research....). Anyway, I want to try a simple prototype and since I
have some facility in python, I thought I'd try using it (I'd really
rather not sit around with notepad writing java aglets if I can
possibly avoid it). Problem is this :

I need a agent environment (or server or whatever it's called) that can
accept agents, that runs on Windows 98/NT. It would be a great perk if
it were cross-platform, since sooner or later Solaris and HP-UX will be
thrown into the mix, but for now Windows is the absolute neccessity.

I've seen a couple interesting projects using python for this type of
stuff, but they either run on Unix (Know-bots) or OS/2 (Rover).
Anything out there for Windows?

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thantos at gw

Aug 6, 1999, 4:15 PM

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On Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:52:28 GMT, timcollinsdeja@my-deja.com
<timcollinsdeja@my-deja.com> wrote:

>I've seen a couple interesting projects using python for this type of
>stuff, but they either run on Unix (Know-bots) or OS/2 (Rover).
>Anything out there for Windows?

There's no really good reason that the Python agent code floating
around /can't/ run on Windows; most of the networking code will work
regardless unless they're doing really deeply fancy things. If they
are, you can very likely turn one of the Distributed Object harnesses
written in Python to your use as a means of migration. One of the
advantages of doing so is that agent docks needn't be limited to
/just/ Windows or Unix but can span both transparently if you're
shipping Python bytecode around the network.

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timcollinsdeja at my-deja

Aug 7, 1999, 6:24 PM

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This may just be my windows centric way of looking at things, but I was
led to believe by the agent stuff that they were exe type files for the
agent servers that wouldn't run on windows without recompiling
(Something I want to avoid).

What I need is a agent server type of thing that allows me to write
code to use it. In other words, I'd really rather concentrate on the
agent than than the agent environment....

> There's no really good reason that the Python agent code floating
> around /can't/ run on Windows; most of the networking code will work
> regardless unless they're doing really deeply fancy things. If they
> are, you can very likely turn one of the Distributed Object harnesses
> written in Python to your use as a means of migration. One of the
> advantages of doing so is that agent docks needn't be limited to
> /just/ Windows or Unix but can span both transparently if you're
> shipping Python bytecode around the network.

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