Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: zeroc-ice
Version: 3.7.11
Summary: Ice is a comprehensive RPC framework with support for Python, C++, .NET, Java, JavaScript and more.
Author-email: "ZeroC, Inc." <info@zeroc.com>
License-Expression: GPL-2.0-only
Project-URL: Homepage, https://zeroc.com/ice
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice
Project-URL: Documentation, https://archive.zeroc.com/ice/3.7
Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/issues
Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/3.7/CHANGELOG-3.7.md
Keywords: ice,RPC
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown

# Ice for Python

[Getting started] | [Examples] | [Documentation] | [Building from source]

The [Ice framework] provides everything you need to build networked applications,
including RPC, pub/sub, server deployment, and more.

Ice for Python is the Python implementation of the Ice framework.

## Sample Code

```slice
// Slice definitions (Hello.ice)

module Demo
{
    interface Hello
    {
        void sayHello();
    }
}
```

```python
// Client application (client.py)
import sys
import Ice

Ice.loadSlice('Hello.ice')
import Demo

# Ice.initialize returns an initialized Ice communicator, the communicator is destroyed
# once it goes out of scope.
with Ice.initialize(sys.argv) as communicator:
    hello = Demo.HelloPrx.checkedCast(
        communicator.stringToProxy("hello:default -h localhost -p 10000"))
    hello.sayHello()
```

```python
// Server application (server.py)

import signal
import sys
import Ice

Ice.loadSlice('Hello.ice')
import Demo

class Printer(Demo.Hello):
    def sayHello(self, current):
        print("Hello World!")

# Ice.initialize returns an initialized Ice communicator, the communicator is destroyed
# once it goes out of scope.
with Ice.initialize(sys.argv) as communicator:

    # Install a signal handler to shutdown the communicator on Ctrl-C
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda signum, frame: communicator.shutdown())
    if hasattr(signal, 'SIGBREAK'):
        signal.signal(signal.SIGBREAK, lambda signum, frame: communicator.shutdown())
    adapter = communicator.createObjectAdapterWithEndpoints("Hello", "default -h localhost -p 10000")
    adapter.add(Printer(), Ice.stringToIdentity("hello"))
    adapter.activate()
    communicator.waitForShutdown()
```

[Getting started]: https://archive.zeroc.com/ice/3.7/hello-world-application/writing-an-ice-application-with-python
[Examples]: https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice-demos/tree/3.7/python
[Documentation]: https://archive.zeroc.com/ice/3.7
[Building from source]: https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/3.7/python/BUILDING.md
[Ice framework]: https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice
