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[Python-Dev] SocketServer issues

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 14 16:27:08 CET 2012 
Hopefully it doesn't use select if no timeout is set...

--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone)
On Mar 14, 2012 2:08 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:26:16 +0000
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:
> > Hi there.
> > I want to mention some issues I've had with the socketserver module, and
> discuss if there's a way to make it nicer.
> > So, for a long time we were able to create magic stackless mixin classes
> for
> > it, like ThreadingMixIn, and assuming we had the appropriate socket
> > replacement library, be able to use it nicely using tasklets.
>
> I don't really think the ability to "create magic stackless mixin
> classes" should be a driving principle for the stdlib.
> I would suggest using a proper non-blocking framework such as Twisted.
>
> > So, my first question is:  Why not simply rely on the already built-in
> timeout
> > support in the socket module?
>
> In case you didn't notice, the built-in timeout support *also* uses
> select().
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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