Yes, that's it exactly.  So things without work tasks can still get done.

But timers are the important thing.  With timers you can always implement
work tasks by yourself.

On Feb 6, 2008 12:49 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment:
>
> I still don't get it.  Maybe you're talking about something like "call a
> function at the next select() loop" which in Twisted is equal to:
> >>> reactor.callLater(0, something)
>
> By using my patched asyncore you can do the same with:
> >>> self.call_later(0, something)
>
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