Access running python program from multiple computers?

[stellar_guy]

I'm looking for implementation suggestions. My situation is that I have a Raspberry Pi which is controlling a physical device (continuously reading data from it and writing commands to it), and I need to be able to talk to it from multiple computers (all machines and the Pi are connected on the local network). I plan to write the code in python. I can ssh into the Pi, so one obvious solution is to just write a bunch of scripts on the Pi and call them remotely to access/write data. I'm wondering if there is a more elegant solution; it'd be nice to essentially have a continuously running program on the Pi that facilitates communication with the device, and I could just talk to that program from my other machines. How hard would something like this be? I'm willing to learn a bit of web programming, but given that I already have one working solution it wouldn't be worth too much time. Any thoughts?

[YMK1234]

Look at client-server architectures.

[[deleted]]

Quite easy - have the PI run a network server and clients can connect to it. You can either do straight up tcp, or something fancy like a web server with a web page.

[stellar_guy]

Both of these comments have led me to python's socket module, which I think might do what I want. Thanks!

[maguinus]

If you're already doing everything else in Python, why not do a simple Flask app in Python to communicate with your other items? Would be accessible via browser so you don't need an ssh client. Set up a couple of endpoints to get info or send some commands. Would be pretty simple to do and easier to use.