Remote procedure calls

There are hundreds of systems to perform RPC in Python, but because it has powerful networking tools and is a dynamic language, everything we need is already built into the standard library.

How to do it...

You need to perform the following steps for this recipe:

1. Using xmlrpc.server, we can easily create an XMLRPC-based server that exposes multiple services:

import xmlrpc.server

class XMLRPCServices:
    class ExposedServices:
        pass

    def __init__(self, **services):
        self.services = self.ExposedServices()
        for name, service in services.items():
            setattr(self.services, name, service)

    def serve(self, host='localhost', port=8000):
        print(&apos...