network servers

[Josiah Carlson]

Sridhar R wrote:

> We're planning to write a server for handling atleast 1000 and atmost
> 4000 clients.  The connection is basically (TCP)
> connect-send-disconnect type.  So no client will open up its
> connection forever, except for the small time duration of sending the
> message.  This is something like online programming contest, where
> clients will submit their programs for evaluation and server will
> return the results (after sometime). I though of writing the server
> part in C and use Python for client.
> 
> Is it possible to use python for that high performance serving?  Note:
> There is only one physical machine.


To expand on Cameron's reply stating "yes, do it", I'll advise you of 
asyncore, most notably its use of the select module.

  - Josiah