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On Mar 14, 2012 2:08 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:26:16 +0000
Kristj�n Valur J�nsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
> I want to mention some issues I've had with the socketserver module, and discuss if there's a way to make it nicer.
> So, for a long time we were able to create magic stackless mixin classes for
> it, like ThreadingMixIn, and assuming we had the appropriate socket
> replacement library, be able to use it nicely using tasklets.

I don't really think the ability to "create magic stackless mixin
classes" should be a driving principle for the stdlib.
I would suggest using a proper non-blocking framework such as Twisted.

> So, my first question is: �Why not simply rely on the already built-in timeout
> support in the socket module?

In case you didn't notice, the built-in timeout support \*also\* uses
select().

Regards

Antoine.


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