=== Houdini RPC port ===

You can control Houdini remotely by accessing HOM through an
XML-RPC (remote procedure call) interface over the network.
Python provides a built-in XML-RPC client, so you can control
a remote copy of Houdini from a Python script.

To start Houdini's RPC server, type the following in
Houdini's Python shell.

{{{
#!python
import houxmlrpc
houxmlrpc.run(port=8888)
}}}

The RPC server will run in a separate thread, waiting for RPC calls from
other processes.

Now you can remotely control Houdini from another process (or on
another computer). For example, in Python, to access the `hou` module
of a copy of Houdini running locally on port `8888`:

{{{
#!python
rpc_server = houxmlrpc.ServerProxy('http://localhost:8888')
hou = rpc_server.hou
}}}