Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:11:08PM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > > > > The documentation could perhaps be clearer about this (that document > > implies, > > but doesn't directly state, that there's only one reactor instance). > > I've always struggled with reactor being a singleton. It makes it very > difficult to use Twisted on a small scale in a larger existing project. > Sometimes it would be really nice to stop a reactor and later start > another one. Unit testing is one of several situations where this can > be a problem. > > I suppose this wouldn't be quite as severe of a problem if it were easy > to restart a stopped reactor, but even then, it would be nice to be able > to have two threads that each have their own reactor. But I guess I'm > just ranting now. :)
Oh, I completely agree. I was just talking about the documentation for what we have now. -Andrew. - _______________________________________________ Twisted-web mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-web
