On Nov 27, 9:03 am, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm the maintainer of an asynchronous FTP server implementation based > on asyncore. > Some days ago I thought it would be interesting to add a class > offering the possibility to run the asyncore loop into a thread so > that a user can run the server without blocking the entire > application. > It could be useful, for example, in case someone wants to integrate a > GUI. > > Since I'm not good with multi-threaded programming I'd like some > opinions about the code I'm going to paste below. > > The FTPServer class that I inherited in my subclass is the > "dispatcher" which listens on port 21 dispatching the incoming > connection to an "handler". > The polling loop (FTPServer.serve_forever()) is wrapped in the run > method. > As you can see I acquire and release the lock (threading.Lock) every > time I call the polling loop. > My question is: is that really necessary? > Should I expect some weird behavior by running the main loop into a > thread like I did? > > Thanks in advance
I found it hard to read through it. Do you have a smaller abstract example? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list