On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:11:16 -0500, "john nielsen" <jn@who.net> wrote:

I am trying to make a very simple echo server use threads to understand how twisted handles blocking code. I think I have the server ok but I am not sure how to have the client grab the data from a thread that finished some time later. If I comment out the sleep call, everything works fine. I looked at deferred but am a little confused. What is the simple code the client missing?

Thanks for any help,

john

Here is the server ############### from twisted.spread import pb from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.python import threadable threadable.init() import time,random

class t: def __init__(self): self.result='' def test(self,st='same'): time.sleep(1) print 'done sleeping' self.result=st+':'+str(time.time())

class Echoer(pb.Root): def __init__(self): self.a=t() def remote_echo(self, st): reactor.callInThread(self.a.test,st) print 'from thread',self.a.result return self.a.result

Instead of the above: class t: def test(self, st='same'): time.sleep(1) return st + ':' + str(time.time()) from twisted.internet import threads class Echoer(pb.Root): def __init__(self): self.a = t() def remote_echo(self, st): return threads.deferToThread(self.a.test, st) This is a good example if "time.sleep(1)" is only a hand-wave put in place of real, computational-expensive code, which I assume it is. If you simply want to delay the result for one section, threads are not necessary: from twisted.internet import defer def remote_echo(self, st): d = defer.Deferred() reactor.callLater(1, d.callback, st + ':' + str(time.time() + 1)) return d Be sure to read the Deferred howto in the documentation section of the website. Jp