René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Ability to send a message from Python back to Elixir","articleBody":"We have a few interesting use cases for Pythonx at TV Labs, and one of the features that would make it particularly useful, is if long-running Python programs could be executed, with the ability to send messages back to the owning process (or any process).\n\nThere is precedent for a feature like this, since NIFs themselves can send message through the [enif_send](https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_nif.html#enif_send) interface.\n\n@cocoa-xu is on vacation this week or I would have asked her, but I imagine this is really only possible if we are able to pull the BEAM header files into Python, or find a way to expose a function in Python that can lift the message up to the BEAM layer.\n\nThoughts?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/davydog187","@type":"Person","name":"davydog187"},"datePublished":"2025-04-10T14:52:25.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":23},"url":"https://github.com/20/pythonx/issues/20"}