how do I listen on a socket without sucking up all the CPU time?

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <39d976b9_4 at corp.newsfeeds.com>,
Joshua Muskovitz <josh at open.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like a job for the select module.
>>
>> Alex.
>
>Can you be a little more specific?

This sounds like a job for the asyncore module.
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