Basics To Create A Mml Console In Python

I am looking to have a MML (man machine language) console written in Python as the only entry point to control and monitor a back-end process. Basically will be able to: attach to

Solution 1:

High on my list would be twisted. It's fairly easy to build a an interactive console with and it's Perspective Broker system would probably work well for you. Plus it's very robust, has a fast event loop, and it's very robust.

You could also use the cmd module, which was recently featured on Doug Hellmann's excellent site Python Module of the Week (PyMOTW).

For interprocess communication, ZeroMQ is fairly easy to work with, and it's very fast.

Solution 2:

Maybe this is a start: http://code.google.com/p/squires/wiki/SquiresHowto

You could use a Socket to do the communication between Front- and Backend.