[Python-ideas] Python and Concurrency

[Richard Oudkerk]

On 28/03/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> Well, there's also the problem that sockets, files, and pipes behave
> differently on Windows.

Windows named pipes have a native message mode.

> If one is only concerned about sockets, there are various lightly
> defined protocols that can be simply implemented on top of
> asyncore/asynchat, among them is the sending of a 32 bit length field in
> network-endian order, followed by the data to be sent immediately
> afterwards.

That's exactly what I was doing.