Python multiplexing is too hard (was: Network statistics program)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10005180810180.14709-100000 at sundial>,
Moshe Zadka  <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>On 17 May 2000, Cameron Laird wrote:
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>> What's the really cool, idiomatic way to multiplex in Python?
>> I'm not happy with anything I do in this regard.
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>I'm not at all sure this is what you mean, but how about the "asyncore"
>module?
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>Personally, most of my programs are GUI's, so I use either the Tk or Gtk+
>``file events''.
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Right.  asyncore is nice--but restricted to socket
connections.  For many applications, that's not a
restriction at all.  However, it'd be nice to have
such a handy interface for communication with
same-host processes; that's why I mentioned popen*().
Does no one else perceive a gap there, in convenient
asynchronous piped IPC?  Do folks just fall back on
select() for this case?
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