app-net

Pure python peer-to-peer interfacing framework. Define functions that can be executed from within the running instance of python, just like a normal function. Or execute the same function on a remote peer running either the same application or a compatible function and return the result as though it was run locally.

Link to the Documentation.

Basic Example

Below is a basic example of defining an application that is running on 2 separate hosts independently. We will define a simple function that will take a positional argument and keyword argument then multiplies them together and returns the result.

First we will define our function

import net

@net.connect
def my_function(some_arg, some_kwarg=5):
    return some_arg * some_kwarg

Now we can launch 2 instances of python. It can be either on the same or remote host, net handles this through peer ids.

>>> import net
>>> # run this function locally on this instance of python
>>> my_function(5, some_kwarg=10)
50
>>> # get all peers on the network
>>> for peer_id in net.get_peers():
...     # execute the same function but on other instances of python and return the results
...     print(my_function(5, some_kwarg=10, peer=peer_id))
...
50