DOOTy group Files

Here's how to use it:

(In order to keep the output legible, I usually run each environment in it's
own instance of the python interpreter)

#import the module
import env

# make an environment instance with
# Id = "Alice" which listens to port 10000 on the local host,
# and that knows about a single peer "Bob"
# which it expects to be listening on port 10001
# (see the code in env.py for details, it's pretty simple)
a = env.alice()

# makes "Bob" on port 10001  
# who knows about "Charlie" on port 10002
b = env.bob()


# start Alice's thread, it will begin requesting
# peers and pings from its peers, as well as
# replying to responses
a.start()

# start Bob's thread, Bob will begin responding to 
# Alice's requests
b.start()



You should see some debugging messages, when requests and responses are
received. Alice should discover Charlie as a peer, and periodically update 
the pingtime.

There are more conveinience methods for creating more environments:
env.charlie() # knows about "David"
env.david()   # knows about "Elmo"
env.elmo()    # knows about "Alice"


Elmo sets up a loop where eventually everybody knows about everybod else...

The entry point to the main thread is the method environment.run(), if you
are interested in the code.