[Python-Dev] asyncore fixes in Python 2.6 broke Zope's version of medusa

[Neil Schemenauer]

glyph at divmod.com <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
> ... which is exactly why I have volunteered to explain to someone how to 
> separate the core event-loop bits (suitable for inclusion in the 
> standard library) from the huge pile of protocol implementations which 
> are not necessarily useful.
>
> Despite the FUD to the contrary, Twisted's internal factoring is quite 
> good; it's not a single, undifferentiated pile of code.  Plus, at this 
> point, we're not even talking about actually putting any Twisted code 
> into the standard library, just standardizing the "protocol" API, which 
> basically boils down to:
[...]

This sounds great.  I'm interested on working on this since it
scratches an itch of mine but I don't know if I will have time.  Do
you think if this part of Twisted became part of the standard
library that it would be used by Twisted or would it continue to
have its own version?

  Neil