[Python-Dev] Getting an optional parameter instead of creating a socket internally

[Jesus Cea]

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On 13/04/10 04:03, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 12 Apr, 11:19 pm, jcea at jcea.es wrote:
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>> On 04/13/2010 12:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes:
>>>>
>>>> PS: "socket.setdefaulttimeout()" is not enough, because it could
>>>> shutdown a perfectly functional connection, just because it was idle
>>>> for
>>>> too long.
>>>
>>> The socket timeout doesn't shutdown anything. It just puts a limit on
>>> how much
>>> time recv() and send() can block. Then it's up to you to detect
>>> whether the
>>> server is still alive (for example by pinging it through whatever
>>> means the
>>> application protocol gives you).
>>
>> A regular standard library (let say, poplib) would abort, after getting
>> the timeout exception.
>>>> 4. Modify client libraries to accept a new optional socket-like object
>>>> as an optional parameter. This would allow things like transparent
>>>> compression or encryption, or to replace the socket connection by
>>>> anything else (read/write to shared memory or database, for example).
>>>
>>> This could be useful too.
>>
>> I have been thinking about this for years. Do you actually think this
>> could be formally proposed?.
> 
> Every once in a while I make a little bit more progress on the PEP I'm
> working on for this.  If you want to talk more about this, you can find
> me in #python-dev or #twisted on freenode.
> 
> Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul, I would like to have this for 3.2. How is the PEP going?.

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