Use Python from PHP

Question

Hi all, let's suppose there is a running python script performing a task, now you want to send/ask a request to that script from PHP. How would you accomplish this? , I have seen approaches where PHP starts the python script with some arguments and finally gets the result. But in this case the python script is always running
Thank you for your time reading my concern, I would appreciate any help or advise

Answer 1

you need to read about inter-process communication. you can talk to the process via pipes using stdout/stdin or using sockets