[Python-Dev] SocketServer issues

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:26:16 +0000
Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
> I want to mention some issues I've had with the socketserver module, and discuss if there's a way to make it nicer.
> So, for a long time we were able to create magic stackless mixin classes for
> it, like ThreadingMixIn, and assuming we had the appropriate socket
> replacement library, be able to use it nicely using tasklets.

I don't really think the ability to "create magic stackless mixin
classes" should be a driving principle for the stdlib.
I would suggest using a proper non-blocking framework such as Twisted.

> So, my first question is:  Why not simply rely on the already built-in timeout
> support in the socket module?

In case you didn't notice, the built-in timeout support *also* uses
select().

Regards

Antoine.