How would a Python script running on Linux call a routine in a Python script running under Wine?

Question

I have a Python (3) script running on Linux, referred to as the main script, which has to call a routine from a proprietary DLL. So far, I have solved this with Wine using t

Answer 1

You want to communicate between two processes, where one of them is obscured by being under the control of the WINE engine.

My first thought here is to use a very decoupled form of IPC. There are just too many things that can go wrong with tight coupling and something like WINE involved.

And finally, how can this be made easy for someone new to this kind of stuff?

The obvious answer is to set up a web server. There are plenty of tutorials using plenty of packages in Python to respond to HTTP requests, and to generate HTTP requests.

So, set up a little HTTP responder in your WINE process, listen to some non-standard port (not 8080 or 80), and translate requests into calls to your DLL. If you're clever, you'll interpret web requests (http://localhost:108000/functionname?arg1=foo&arg2=bar) into possibly different DLL calls.

On the other side, create a HTTP client in your non-WINE code and make requests to your server.