method: execnet.SocketGateway.remote_install

 return a connected socket gateway through the
            given gateway. 
        
    def remote_install(cls, gateway, hostport=None): 

origin: type

where:

function source:

def remote_install(cls, gateway, hostport=None): 
    """ return a connected socket gateway through the
            given gateway. 
        """ 
    if hostport is None: 
        host, port = ('', 0) 
    else:   
        host, port = hostport 
    socketserverbootstrap = py.code.Source(
        mypath.dirpath('script', 'socketserver.py').read('rU'),
        """
            import socket
            sock = bind_and_listen((%r, %r)) 
            hostname = socket.gethostname() 
            channel.send((hostname, sock.getsockname()))
            startserver(sock)
        """ % (host, port)) 
    # execute the above socketserverbootstrap on the other side
    channel = gateway.remote_exec(socketserverbootstrap)
    hostname, (realhost, realport) = channel.receive() 
    if hostport is None: 
        realhost = hostname 
    #gateway.trace("remote_install received" 
    #              "port=%r, hostname = %r" %(realport, hostname))
    return py.execnet.SocketGateway(realhost, realport) 

call sites:

called in /home/johnny/projects/merlinux/py/dist/py/execnet/testing/test_gateway.py

traceback execnet.SocketGateway.remote_install.0