"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 ?
Indeed. I seem to remember a discussion a few months ago about "easy" thread programming, which invariably directed people off to use the simplest abstractions necessary: Queues. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
