Advice on sockets and threads

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 05:20:24PM +0100, Gon?alo Rodrigues wrote:
> I have a class Session which is basically a thread (that is, it derives
> from threading.Thread) controlling a socket. The run method is basically
> a loop of the form:

Why are you writing your own networking framework?  There are plenty for
python already:
  - SocketServer (simple, in the standard library),
  - asyncore (doesn't require threads, in the standard library),
  - Twisted (sort of like asyncore on steroids, not in standard library).

My recommendation would be to use Twisted -- it is easier and more
powerful than asyncore, and already has protocols like telnet (and many,
many others) implemented for you.  Writing a cross-platform select loop that
correctly interprets all the various error conditions is tricky; don't
reinvent the wheel.

-Andrew.