socket function that loops AND returns something

[Bryan Olson]

Cameron Laird wrote:
[...]
 >>Different servers have different needs, but when in doubt use
 >>threads.  Threading on the popular operating systems has
 >>improved vastly in the last several years.  Running a thousand
 >>simultaneous threads is perfectly reasonable. Programmers using
 >>threads have to be aware of things like race conditions, but
 >>when threads are handling separate connections, most of their
 >>operations are independent of other threads.
 >
 > Are you advising Python programmers to use only thread-based
 > approaches, and to judge Asyncore and Twisted on that basis?

No.

 > Do you intend that readers believe that it "is perfectly
 > reasonable" to design in terms of a single Python process
 > which manages up to "a thousand simultaneous *Python*
 > threads"?

Yes.


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--Bryan