[issue11959] smtpd cannot be used without affecting global state

[Vinay Sajip]

Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

>
> Well, I would argue that asyncore's design is thoroughly broken, and

> passing a socket map is a poor kludge to avoid global state; in a
> sophisticated event loop, the socket map wouldn't be the only piece of
> state to pass around.
>

I don't disagree with you, but since it's there in the stdlib, there's no reason not to make incremental improvements involving small changes.

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