in reply to Communication between seperate scripts
What is wrong with using networking? If you use a TCP connection for example, a client can connect from either another computer on the internet and/or from the same computer. So in the case where it needs to run standalone, you can run both the client and server on the same machine and simply have the client connect to 127.0.0.1 (on the server port). In a networking situation, you just have your client machine connect to the server machine...
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