On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:35:06 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: : On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun : <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: : > That's correct. And the client initiates the connection. At the : > moment, I use one thread per connection, and don't really want to : > spend the time to figure out how to do it singlethreadedly. : : Threads work quite happily in Python if they're I/O bound, which they : will be if they're waiting for the client to do something.
Quite. I was referring to some tutorials and documentation recommending to use non-blocking sockets and select() within a single thread. I cannot say that I understand why, but I can imagine the benefit with heavy traffic. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
