DeliveryBoy is a lightweight and transparent intermediary for executing a Python callable in a new Python process such that a developer using this intermediary does not have to care.
The new Python process is started by a transport command yield a wide range of applications, e.g.:
- Execution as a different user by
sudo. - Execution on a remote host by
ssh. - Execution on a HPC cluster by
bsub(in case of LSF).
The base assumptions for this implementation are:
- On the target host a compatible version of Python is installed.
- On the target host the Python environment contains the deliveryboy package.
- The Python environment on the source and target hosts are identical (aka. same modules installed).
- Only the callable, module names for modules in the (virtual) environment and modules from outside the environment need to be transported.
See also the documentation.
The simple demonstrator examples are working with Python 3, but not all features have been implemented and tested, yet.
Please feel free to contribute by suggesting additional features, fixing bugs or implementing missing features.
This project was inspired by:
- sudo.py by Barney Gale
- flowGuide2 by Anselm Kruis