cpython

History

Guido van Rossum b940e113bf SF patch 1631942 by Collin Winter: (a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V" (b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable) (c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block		2007-01-10 16:19:56 +00:00
..
MANIFEST	* empty log message *	1993-12-17 14:32:26 +00:00
README	Patch #469517 : Info about rpcgen compilers.	2001-10-11 19:23:28 +00:00
T.py	Whitespace normalization. Ran reindent.py over the entire source tree.	2004-07-18 05:56:09 +00:00
mountclient.py	Whitespace normalization. Ran reindent.py over the entire source tree.	2004-07-18 05:56:09 +00:00
nfsclient.py	SF patch 1631942 by Collin Winter:	2007-01-10 16:19:56 +00:00
rnusersclient.py	Whitespace normalization. Ran reindent.py over the entire source tree.	2004-07-18 05:56:09 +00:00
rpc.py	SF patch 1631942 by Collin Winter:	2007-01-10 16:19:56 +00:00
test	undo opaque=fopaque changes; make test script more flexible	1995-10-11 18:54:15 +00:00
xdr.py	Get rid of most of the remaining uses of <>. There's still Tools/* thogh.	2006-08-29 04:39:12 +00:00

README

This is a Python interface to Sun RPC, designed and implemented mostly
by reading the Internet RFCs about the subject.

*** NOTE: xdr.py has evolved into the standard module xdrlib.py ***

There are two library modules, xdr.py and rpc.py, and several example
clients: mountclient.py, nfsclient.py, and rnusersclient.py,
implementing the NFS Mount protocol, (part of) the NFS protocol, and
the "rnusers" protocol (used by rusers(1)), respectively.  The latter
demonstrates the use of broadcast via the Port mapper's CALLIT
procedure.

There is also a way to create servers in Python.

To test the nfs client, run it from the shell with something like this:

  python -c 'import nfsclient; nfsclient.test()' [hostname [filesystemname]]

When called without a filesystemname, it lists the filesystems at the
host; default host is the local machine.

Other clients are tested similarly.

For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two
hosts that are known to export NFS filesystems with little restrictions).

There are now two different RPC compilers:

1) Wim Lewis rpcgen.py found on http://www.omnigroup.com/~wiml/soft/stale-index.html#python. 

2) Peter Åstrands rpcgen.py, which is part of "pynfs" (http://www.cendio.se/~peter/pynfs/).