[Tutor] sockets

[Brendon]

On Wednesday 04 July 2001 09:44, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Danny Yoo wrote:
> What you'll probably want to look at is a way of asking the socket: "if
> there's anything interesting coming at us from the server,
> tell us about
> it.  But if not, let me do my own thing." 

yup..

> I think this is asynchronous
> io, but I've never actually played with async stuff before.  You might
> want to look at:
>
>     http://python.org/doc/lib/module-asyncore.html
>
> which seems to have some good documentation on doing asyncronous IO.
> I'll need to take a look at the Stevens book myself, one of these days, to
> understand what's happening.

more documents to read, there goes my summer holiday :)

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