[Python-Dev] Synchronous and Asynchronous servers in the standard library

[Dennis Allison]

The question, then, is what base should be used for developing asynchonous
servers?  

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:32:35 +1100, Anthony Baxter
> <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> > Josiah Carlson wrote:
> > > A recent patch to offer an SMTP server (SocketServer derivative) sparked
> > > the below...
> > >
> > > Question:
> > > Does we (and by 'we' I mean those in charge of developing Python) want
> > > to offer both asynchronous (deriving from asyncore, asynchat, etc.) and
> > > synchronous versions of server software in the standard library?
> > 
> > Personally, I think that encouraging anyone to develop new software on
> > top of asyncore/asynchat is a _terrible_ idea.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Jeremy