From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-09-15T08:17:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Python and Ruby to Talk to Each Other

On Saturday 14 September 2002 06:06 pm, Sam Hunting wrote:
> A clueless Ruby newbie seeks help...
>
> I have gotten Ruby's amazing Linda tuplespace up and running which was
> incredibly easy, so not using Ruby is not an option -- and I have a
> database (not relational, not at all standard, written in C) that I
> must use a Python extension to query and capture result sets, so not
> using Python is not an option.
>
> So how can I pass a query (in the form of a text string) from rinda to
> Python, and how can I pass the results (also in the form of a text
> string) from Python back to rinda?
>
> I tried opening the same socket in Python and Ruby (works in Ruby
> only!) and got a "packet size" error. It's also been suggested to me
> that I use mkfifo to set up a pipe for the Python process to
> communicate with the Ruby process.
>
> Any thoughts on this? I'm obviously quite inexperienced at this, so a
> sample snippet of ruby code would really help.
>
> Thanks in advance!

Have you checked out Ruby/Python in RAA?

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FPython

I've never used it (although I am concurrently a Python programmer)-- but it 
may be what you're looking for.

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