[Python-Dev] Trial balloon: microthreads library in stdlib (original) (raw)

Tristan Seligmann mithrandi-python-dev at mithrandi.za.net
Wed Feb 14 18:10:06 CET 2007

I am not writing a competing event driven mechanism. What I was doing was feeling out whether there was any interest in better support for asynchronous calls.

I interpreted your suggestions as being about enhancing asyncore with IOCP (or similar); sure, asyncore is already a "competing" event driven mechanism, but for all intents and purposes it is "dead" as there is not much in the way of active development on it, and a relatively small remaining user base. You seemed to be suggesting that asyncore be revived by extending the implementation, as well as sprinkling some generator / tasklets / channels / etc. sugar on top of it.

But I hope you realise that asserting that things should be within Twisted without giving any reason, especially when the first person saying it just stated that the matching work in Twisted wasn't even ready, feels like Twisted is trying to push itself forward by bullying people to work within it whenever something can be asserted as laying within whatever domain it is which Twisted covers.

I don't really think it's "bullying" to suggest that improving Twisted, rather than reimplementing Twisted's core with a brand new implementation slapped straight into the Python stdlib, is counterproductive.

Even if it doesn't suit their needs. I don't think Tristan intended that, but when followed up with your reply and JP's interesting response to Greg, it feels like it.

The gist of my message was "Instead of reimplementing the Twisted reactor, probably poorly, just use Twisted", based on my understanding of what your suggestion was.

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