Inter-Process Communications (IPC)

A simple library to allow processes to use UDP to communicate with each other.

This is yet again another rehash of old work in a new way ... I keep reinventing the wheel. :)

in development

Example

import ipcpy as ipc
import struct
from collections import namedtuple

MSG_SIZE = 4
TIMEOUT = 0.1
run = True

def client():
    global run
    print("Client started")
    s = ipc.SocketUDP()
    s.open(TIMEOUT)

    for i in range(10):
        pkt = struct.pack("<i", i)
        print(f"send: {pkt}")
        s.sendto(pkt, (HOST,PORT))
        time.sleep(0.25)

    run = False

def server():
    global run
    print("Client started")
    s = ipc.SocketUDP()
    s.bind(HOST,PORT,TIMEOUT)

    while run:
        data, address = s.recvfrom(MSG_SIZE)

        if data is None:
            continue
            
        msg = struct.unpack("<i", data)
        print(f"recvfrom: {address} {data} {msg}")
                

if __name__ =="__main__":
    print(f"*** Main start ***")
    t1 = threading.Thread(target=server)
    t2 = threading.Thread(target=client)

    t1.start()
    t2.start()

    t1.join()
    t2.join()
    print("*** Main stop ***")

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2003 Kevin J. Walchko

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