29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
9:09 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:13:20PM +0100, Ananda Tallur wrote: [...]
I have no idea of how to implement this, and can't find a documentation or an example for this kind of concurrent web application with twisted.web.
Tommi's advice to use reactor.spawnProcess is good.
You may find the "mirror" component of Backwards to be helpful -- if I recall correctly, if a thumbnail is requested but doesn't exist yet, it can spawn a process to generate it, which sounds very similar to what you are after.
Backwards can be found at: http://puzzling.org/computing/software/projects/backwards
-Andrew.