[Python-Dev] threadsafe patch for asynchat (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Feb 9 20:42:21 CET 2006

On 2/7/06, Mark Edgington <edgimar at lycos.com> wrote:

Ok, perhaps the notation could be improved, but the idea of the semaphore in the patch is "Does it run inside of a multithreaded environment, and could its push() functions be called from a different thread?"

The long-term fate of asyncore/asynchat aside, instead of wanting to patch asynchat, you should be able to subclass it easily to introduce the functionality you want. Given the disagreement over whether this is a good thing, I suggest that that's a much better way for you to solve your problem than to introduce yet another obscure confusing optional parameter. And you won't have to wait for Python 2.5.

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