Blocking XMPP API?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.2893.1247147391.8015.python-list at python.org>, Gabriel 
Rossetti wrote:

> I am looking for blocking XMPP API. I'm wanting to make a webservice
> that uses XMPP, but all the XMPP libs I find are non-blocking (i.e. w/
> callbacks).

So why not have the caller sleep or something until the callback is invoked?

It's easier to turn an async API into a synchronous one than the other way 
round.