Ropy was built to allow fellow Python developers to call each others programs on each other's machines with as little fuss as possible.

The server itself is just a simple extension of the Python BaseHTTPRequestHandler, and must be customised by the person who deploys the server to expose any method he or she likes.

GET or POST calls to the server are then routed to those methods, with the parameters fed in as arguments.

The main idea is that it is very simple to setup, with just a few lines of code to add your services to the server, and only one line of code to call a service on a remote server.

It is not a replacement for more mature products, just a lightweight tool to help Python developers collaborate.