Josiah Carlson wrote: > "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 ? > Good question. > > 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. > Maybe people are finding Python too easy and they just want to complicate their code to the point where it contains interesting bugs? I dunno ....
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