Message passing from Python to Elixir

[Jordan Dimov]

Hi,

How would one go about passing a message from a Python app to an Elixir process? I tried using erlport (https://github.com/hdima/erlport) with no luck, but I'm not sure I'm setting it up correctly and the documentation is a bit lacking in this respect. Ideally, I would like to be able to do something like this from my Python app:

  cast(Atom("elixir_process"), "my message")

At this stage, I'm not overly concerned about getting the result back into the Python app, although that would be very nice too. 

If anyone has a working example of something like this, I would appreciate it. 

Jordan

P.S. I don't know much Ruby, but if you can give me a Ruby example of something similar, I'll take that too. 

[Doug Goldie]

Look at bert-rpc

I used it last year with ruby and it was great.

I'm see there are python libraries.

-doug.

[Ross Jones]

Hi Jordan,

Jordan Dimov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would one go about passing a message from a Python app to an Elixir
> process? I tried using erlport (https://github.com/hdima/erlport) with
> no luck, but I'm not sure I'm setting it up correctly and the
> documentation is a bit lacking in this respect. Ideally, I would like to
> be able to do something like this from my Python app:

I haven't tried it, but as I like the idea of other languages acting as
Erlang nodes, perhaps
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/erlang/py_interface/ might be a workable
solution. It certainly claims to handle sending and receiving messages.

If you do try it and it works, it'd be great to hear more on the experience.

Ross

[Frank Liu]

Don't we have ports in elixir? Does that work?