On Jul 15, 4:53 am, Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> wrote: > On Jul 14, 6:34 pm, Rick Lawson <lawso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Appreciate any help on this. I am porting an app from Java to python > > and need generic object pooling with hooks for object initialization / > > cleanup and be able to specify an object timeout. > > Are you looking for something like a thread pool or a connection pool? > Such a thing is easy to code in Python. Might as well write one from > scratch for your particular need. > > By the way, a tip for writing Python: Forget Java. If you're porting > an app, consider rewriting it from the architecture on up. You'll save > yourself time and get a better result.
Jonathan, Thanks for the advice but would like to pick your brain a little more. The pool I need is not a thread pool or db pool. I need to pool objects which are a proxy for an external C process that communicates via sockets. The pool is necessary because the initial connection/ authentication is expensive, plus the connection needs to be recycled every so often due to instability on the C side. The existing Java code uses commons-pool which incidentally is the base object pool for a db connection pooling library (DBCP). Anyway, maybe this is just so easy to do in Python that everyone rolls their own - but I have done a lot of googling with no luck. I just hate to re-invent the wheel here - I guess I should look at a db connection pooling library and see if they have a generic object pool somewhere in there. Any you can recommend that are more or less standalone db connection pool libraries ? Thanks, Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list