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Tripp Scott tripps81 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 6 12:34:24 EST 2001 
sorry for the repost, i had wrongly set my From field.

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>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:39:29 +0700
>To: python-list at python.org
>From: Tripp Scott <tripp81 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: simple, lightweight component based development in python?
>
>is there already a lightweight component framework in python?
>
>i need cross platform compatibility so COM is out of my list.
>
>there's CORBA and XPCOM and their python ORBs/binding, but i'm 
>still looking for something simpler, straightforward, and more 
>lightweight. i do not see the need to interface to other 
>languages in the near future so a python-only solution will do 
>-- though the possibility of bridging to COM or CORBA would certainly be nice.
>
>what i want is a framework that allows me to specifically deal 
>with "components" (i.e.: i design interfaces, implement them 
>with one or more python classes, and later assemble the 
>components). the framework should provide the following functions:
>
>- enable a client to locate components which implement a 
>desired interface, and instantiates them;
>- instantiate a remote component (probably with a simple proxy 
>object mechanism);
>- transactional feature would certainly be nice;
>
>however, i do not desire these features:
>- some registry database in a binary format of some kind (i'd 
>rather put all my components in a directory and it's 
>automatically "registered");
>
>the application i am building is a non-visual one (to be run 
>over the Web); i am still looking here and there for an 
>existing solution for a couple of weeks, but if none such beast 
>exists will consider to build one myself -- probably only the 
>minimal feature set first.
>
>t
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