(beginner) question on threads...

[Fred Pacquier]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> said :

> I think you can just create a suitable subclass of
> SocketServer.TCPServer. In my XML-RPC server, I did:
> 
>     class GenericServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn,
>     SocketServer.TCPServer): 
>         """generic XML-RPC server class"""
>         ...
> Each request to my server is handled in a separate thread.
 
By Jove, it works ! Python will never cease to amaze me...
I probably got more than I bargained for, though : now I need to understand 
_why_ it just works -- and probably have to delve into that "mixin" stuff I 
was saving for later too :-)

Thanks for the tip, Skip ! (hey, that sounds like an old Paul Simon song :)

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