Named pipe server under Pythonscript
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Hello. What are the chances that anyone has implemented a named-pipe-server using ctypes under Pythonscript? Probably extremely low, but…if you have maybe you can offer me some advice.
I’m basically trying to get this server/client example code going: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/446422/
It works “normally” (with its sample client), meaning when run using non-Pythonscript Python.But when I try it under Notepad++'s Pythonscript, odd things (hangs, huge delays) seem to happen after this line is executed in the server:
fConnected = windll.kernel32.ConnectNamedPipe(hPipe, None)I’m not sure why this is, as I would think that this Python should be very much the same as other Python implementations when it comes to this. Thanks in advance for any help, but I feel it is probably a very long shot that I’ll get any. :)
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never tried using named pipes, prefer using sockets.
From the code itself I can’t see any obvious pitfall other than
“how to stop the server in a safe way”.
Did you try the code without any other python script active?
How did you start client and server? Obviously not via python script
plugin at the same time.Cheers
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Ah, Claudia! Always the one with the good ideas. I could look into sockets to do the communication I’m desiring, as a fallback plan. I think you’ll remember asking me if I had any more difficult Pythonscript things a couple of weeks ago–maybe this qualifies.
Anyway, when something doesn’t work, I get curious as to why, so while I can give sockets a try, I’m still curious about the named pipe server running in PS. BTW, I did get it to run under PS as a named pipe client, but my overall design is better for what I’m doing if PS runs the server.
So, OK, here we go…answers to your questions: I had nothing else running in PS when trying the server stuff out. My plan was to get the server started in PS, then run a client from something other than PS…for example, a plain old CMD.exe window. Since I couldn’t get the server to start, running the client was irrelevant, but I know you are asking because I might be doing something questionable like running both from PS.
Can you try the server code? Should be easy to try because I don’t think I changed it at all from what is on that website before running it.
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Copy and paste (reformatted line breaks) from activestate.
Server via python script and client via nppexec
As you see, I run the client 5 times and the message appeared immediately.
Still can work with npp without delay/freezing.Can you execute commands in the console when running the server?
How do you start it via Python Script menu? Or via a proxy script and execfile?
Other different way?
