Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:55:31 -0800, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> Now if we can only figure out a way for everyone to benefit from this > >> without > >> tying too many brains up in knots. :) > > > >Whenever I need to deal with these kinds of things (in wxPython > >specifically), I usually set up a wxTimer to signal > >asyncore.poll(timeout=0), but I'm lazy, and rarely need significant > >throughput in my GUI applications. > > And I guess you also don't mind that on OS X this is often noticably broken? > :)
I don't own a Mac, and so far, of the perhaps dozen or so Mac users of the software that does this, I've heard no reports of it being broken. >From what I understand, wxTimers work on all supported platforms (which includes OSX), and if asyncore.poll() is broken on Macs, then someone should file a bug report. If it's asyncore's fault, assign it to me, otherwise someone with Mac experience needs to dig into it. > > [snip] > >Protocol support is hit and miss. NNTP in Python could be better, but > >that's not an asyncore issue (being that nntplib isn't implemented using > >asyncore), that's an "NNTP in Python could be done better" issue. Is it > >worth someone's time to patch it, or should they just use Twisted? Well, > >if we start abandoning stdlib modules, "because they can always use > >Twisted", then we may as well just ship Twisted with Python. > > We could always replace the stdlib modules with thin compatibility layers > based on the Twisted protocol implementations. It's trivial to turn an > asynchronous API into a synchronous one. I think you are correct in marking > this an unrelated issue, though. If the twisted folks (or anyone else) want to implement a "shim" that pretends to be nntplib, it's their business whether calling twisted.internet.monkeypatch.nntplib() does what the name suggests. :) That is to say, I don't believe anyone would be terribly distraught if there was an easy way to use Twisted without drinking the kool-aid. Then again, I do believe that it makes sense to patch the standard library whenever possible - if Twisted has better parsing of nntp, smtp, pop3, imap4, etc. responses, then perhaps we should get the original authors to sign a PSF contributor agreement, and we could translate whatever is better. - 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
