Introducing Python / Chap.11 Exercise 11.3

xmlrpc_server.py

from xmlrpc.server import SimpleXMLRPCServer
from datetime import datetime

def current_time():
    now = str(datetime.now())
    print('Server sent %s', now)
    return now

server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 6789))
server.register_function(current_time, "current_time")
server.serve_forever()

xmlrpc_time_client.py

import xmlrpc.client
from datetime import datetime
from time import sleep

proxy = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("http://localhost:6789/")
while True:
    sleep(3)
    result = proxy.current_time()
    print("Current time is %s" % result)