[Python-Dev] threadsafe patch for asynchat

[Pedro Werneck]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:42:39 +0100
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

> Neal Norwitz wrote:
> > On 2/7/06, Christopher Armstrong <radeex at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Twisted is wonderful, powerful, rich, and very large.  Perhaps a
> >small > > subset could be carefully extracted
> >>
> >The subject of putting (parts of) Twisted into the standard library
> >comes up once every 6 months or so, at least on our mailing list.
> >For all that I think asyncore is worthless, I'm still against
> >copying Twisted into the stdlib. Or at least I'm not willing to
> >maintain the necessary fork, and I fear the nightmares about
> >versioning that can easily occur when you've got both standard
> >library and third party versions of a project.
> > 
> > I wouldn't be enthusiastic about putting all of Twisted in the
> > stdlib either.  Twisted is on a different release schedule than
> > Python.  However, isn't there a relatively small core subset like
> > Alex mentioned that isn't changing much?  Could we split up those
> > components and have those live in the core, but the vast majority of
> > Twisted live outside as it does now?
> 
> +1. This would be very useful for simple networking applications.


I have a simple library I wrote some time ago to make asynchronous TCP
servers (honeypots), and I wrote it exactly for the reasons being
discussed on this thread: the other developers were not very familiar
with Python (they were planning to use Perl on the project) and a bit
confused with asyncore. Twisted was the obvious answer, but I could not
convince them to put it in the project because of the size and the work
needed to put it in all machines they were planning to use.

I used this library several times the last two years. The last two weeks
I've been using it with another project, but yesterday (a coincidence ?)
I decided to reduce all of it to a single module. 

It is roughly based on Twisted, the interface is similar, some parts are
a copy of Twisted code (select code, LineProtocol is a copy of twisted's
LineReceiver) but only 16k in size, everything is covered by unittests.
It's intended for servers, but client support can be added with some
effort too. Maybe it fits the needs of what is being discussed on this
thread.


It's available here: 

http://www.pythonbrasil.com.br/moin.cgi/HoneyPython?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=asiel.tar.bz2

-- 
Pedro Werneck