[Tutor] Threading + socket server (blocking IO)

[Kent Johnson]

Liam Clarke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> About to embark on my first foray into threading, and rather unsure of
> initial approach. I have a basic UDPServer from SocketServer running
> using serve_forever(). I'd like to stick this in a thread where it can
> endlessly loop waiting for incoming packets, and pushing the received
> data into a list where it can be retrieved and operated on by another
> thread, until such time as the controlling app terminates it.

Threaded servers are supported by the standard library. Instead of using 
UDPServer use this class:
     class ThreadingUDPServer(ThreadingMixIn, UDPServer): pass

Then your request handler will be called in a separate thread. You don't 
need to queue the requests yourself, the server will create the thread 
and dispatch to it when a request is received.

Kent