Mark

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As it happens, today I worked out a Python script for sending commands to IBC (see below): this was as part of an ongoing discussion relating to an issue in the IBC repository on Github.

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I’m not a Python user, so it took me a while to get it to work: it’s based on something I found in the Python Wiki (see ), which is a little out-of-date.

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This works fine as a free-standing script so it can be run from the? command line in either Windows or Linux, but it would be easy to incorporate it into a Python program.

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I’ll probably add something like this to the IBC download, as it’s better and more versatile than the current Stop.bat/Restart.bat files (apart from the need to install Python, but that is straightforward).

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Here’s the script:

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#!/usr/bin/env py

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import socket

import time

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TCP_IP = '10.252.0.7'??? # IP address or name of computer running TWS

TCP_PORT = 7463????????? # CommandServerPort setting in config.ini:

BUFFER_SIZE = 1024

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MESSAGE = b"RESTART\n"? # Command to send to IBC

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s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))

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print("sending: ", MESSAGE)

s.send(MESSAGE)

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data = s.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)

print("received data:", data)

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time.sleep(1)

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print("closing socket")

s.close()

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print("exiting script")

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