On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:07 +0200, Eugene Coetzee wrote:

  

I also tried reactor.iterate() 

(http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorCore.html#iterate )
    

Don't do that, reactor.iterate() is not something Twisted applications
should use.

  

Ok, perhaps that was a bit of wishful thinking :-) 

It would have been kind of neat if one could call something like reactor.yield(thisfunc,delay) from within a time consuming loop instead of the recursive workaround or resorting to a multithreaded approach.