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The Ice framework provides everything you need to build networked applications, including RPC, pub/sub, server deployment, and more.
Ice for Python is the Python implementation of the Ice framework.
// Slice definitions (Greeter.ice) module VisitorCenter { /// Represents a simple greeter. interface Greeter { /// Creates a personalized greeting. /// @param name The name of the person to greet. /// @return The greeting. string greet(string name); } }# Client application (main.py) import Ice import asyncio import getpass import sys import VisitorCenter async def main(): async with Ice.Communicator(sys.argv, eventLoop=asyncio.get_running_loop()) as communicator: greeter = VisitorCenter.GreeterPrx(communicator, "greeter:tcp -h localhost -p 4061") greeting = await greeter.greetAsync(getpass.getuser()) print(greeting) if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())# Server application (main.py) import Ice import chatbot import sys def main(): with Ice.Communicator(sys.argv) as communicator: adapter = communicator.createObjectAdapterWithEndpoints("GreeterAdapter", "tcp -p 4061") adapter.add(chatbot.Chatbot(), Ice.Identity(name="greeter")) adapter.activate() print("Listening on port 4061...") try: communicator.waitForShutdown() except KeyboardInterrupt: print("Caught Ctrl+C, exiting...") if __name__ == "__main__": main()# Greeter implementation (chatbot.py) import VisitorCenter class Chatbot(VisitorCenter.Greeter): def greet(self, name: str, current: Ice.Current) -> str: print(f"Dispatching greet request {{ name = '{name}' }}") return f"Hello, {name}!"