EPC (RPC stack for Emacs Lisp) for Python

Links:

• Documentation <http://python-epc.readthedocs.org/>_ (at Read the Docs)
• Repository <https://github.com/tkf/python-epc>_ (at GitHub)
• Issue tracker <https://github.com/tkf/python-epc/issues>_ (at GitHub)
• PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/epc>_
• Travis CI <https://travis-ci.org/#!/tkf/python-epc>_ |build-status|

Other resources:

• kiwanami/emacs-epc <https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-epc>_ (Client and server implementation in Emacs Lisp and Perl.)
• tkf/emacs-jedi <https://github.com/tkf/emacs-jedi>_ (Python completion for Emacs using EPC server.)

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What is this?

EPC is an RPC stack for Emacs Lisp and Python-EPC is its server side and client side implementation in Python. Using Python-EPC, you can easily call Emacs Lisp functions from Python and Python functions from Emacs. For example, you can use Python GUI module to build widgets for Emacs (see examples/gtk/server.py_ for example).

Python-EPC is tested against Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.

Install

To install Python-EPC and its dependency sexpdata_, run the following command.::

pip install epc

.. _sexpdata: https://github.com/tkf/sexpdata

Usage

Save the following code as my-server.py. (You can find functionally the same code in examples/echo/server.py_)::

from epc.server import EPCServer

server = EPCServer(('localhost', 0))

@server.register_function def echo(*a): return a

server.print_port() server.serve_forever()

And then run the following code from Emacs. This is a stripped version of examples/echo/client.el_ included in Python-EPC repository_.::

(require 'epc)

(defvar my-epc (epc:start-epc "python" '("my-server.py")))

(deferred:$ (epc:call-deferred my-epc 'echo '(10)) (deferred:nextc it (lambda (x) (message "Return : %S" x))))

(message "Return : %S" (epc:call-sync my-epc 'echo '(10 40)))

.. _examples/echo/server.py: https://github.com/tkf/python-epc/blob/master/examples/echo/server.py .. _examples/echo/client.el: https://github.com/tkf/python-epc/blob/master/examples/echo/client.el

If you have carton_ installed, you can run the above sample by simply typing the following commands::

make elpa # install EPC in a separated environment make run-sample # run examples/echo/client.el

.. _carton: https://github.com/rejeep/carton

For example of bidirectional communication and integration with GTK, see examples/gtk/server.py_. You can run this example by::

make elpa make run-gtk-sample # run examples/gtk/client.el

.. _examples/gtk/server.py: https://github.com/tkf/python-epc/blob/master/examples/gtk/server.py

License

Python-EPC is licensed under GPL v3. See COPYING for details.