Q1: How to determine a function is 'blocking action' or not? Any function needs CPU times. Indeed, a computational-intensive function is blocking action. But how small/fast function can be classified as non-blocking? Twist requires all user functions to be non-blocked. If reactor calls a blocking function, what will happen? In my mind, reactor maintains a command queue internally (just like windows message queue). The blocking function only postpones the execution of other queued functions, but it does not break the logic of the program. Is that right? Q2: Today when I go through the twist document, I am confused about the threading problem in reactor. What is the different between 'reactor.callFromThread' and a plain call in reactor loop? def callFromThread(f): self.threadCallQueue.append((f, args, kw)) self.wakeUp() It seems equivalent to reactor.callLater(0, f...). What is the real circumstance for calling callFromThread? Further more, how to determine a function is thread-safe in python? Why the twist doc says: "writing data to a transport from a protocol is not thread-safe."? Q3: In my application, I need a facility to dynamically select a protocol to communicate with the server. Eg: When connected, the server sent a string to client to indicate the version of protocol it used. Then, the client can load the proper protocol. But I don't know how to implement this. A 'Factory' can only create one kind of 'Protocol', and it seems the instances of 'Protocol' cannot share the connection (Transport object) to a server. Could you give me some clues? Thank you. -- ShenLei