(beginner) question on threads...

[Skip Montanaro]

    Fred> Off to a bad start, I made the following simple-minded change :

    Fred> in class BaseHTTPRequestHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler) :

    Fred> in def handle(self) :

    Fred> the last line : method()  # generally self.do_GET()
    Fred> becomes :       thread.start_new_thread(method, () )

I think you can just create a suitable subclass of SocketServer.TCPServer.
In my XML-RPC server, I did:

    class GenericServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn, SocketServer.TCPServer):
        """generic XML-RPC server class"""
        ...

Each request to my server is handled in a separate thread.

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