Steve Holden wrote: > > What is the reason that people want to use threads when they can have > > poll/select-style message processing? Why does Zope require threads? > > IOW, why would anybody *want* a "threadsafe patch for asynchat"? > > > In case the processing of events needed to block? If I'm processing web > requests in an async* dispatch loop and a request needs the results of a > (probably lengthy) database query in order to generate its output, how > do I give the dispatcher control again to process the next asynchronous > network event? > > The usual answer is "process the request in a thread". That way the > dispatcher can spring to life for each event as quickly as needed.
but why do such threads have to talk to asyncore directly ? </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
