adam olsen kjbnfagmailcom mon mar 24 2008 337 pm thomas wouters wrote mon mar 24 2008 1021 pm adam olsen wrote twisted may one best best ways writing concurrent programs today doesnt need stdlib safethread going solve many problems less changes required users language wrong time add twisted must missed part already large set event loops single interface fact hurting people twisted goes way interact nicely event loops ones knows versatile enough hook single event system standard library definitely advantageous even safethreads available everywhere performance common case satisfactory used case people thought asyncore standard event system long since ceased im opposed standardizing twisted canonical way events python event system python concern may used excuse slowly rewrite entire language eventdriven model however based assumption modules like urllib2 werent already eventdriven looking seems already wraps blocking api simple use cases long talking replacing existing eventdriven stuff long retain existing blocking api including calling threads dont think valid opposition adam olsen aka rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 163107 0600 pythondev py3k asyncoreasynchat