[Python-Dev] Re: asyncore 2.1.1/2.2 incompatibility

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>Raising the exception only works from inside a signal handler, right?

I don't see why it would.  handle_read_event and handle_write_event
can raise the asyncore.ExitNow exception to terminate the main loop.
A signal handler should also raise ExitNow, in case it's unlucky and
fires within a handle_*_event() method.

(Boy, do we ever need an asyncore HOWTO.)

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