Using nntplib

[Gerhard Häring]

* jb <jblazi at hotmail.com> [2002-05-30 18:44 +0200]:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> >     http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/chp5notes.htm
> > 
> > As far as informing the GUI thread about what's been received so far,
> > whether you use LIST or XOVER perhaps you could just put the headers onto
> > a Queue (see that Queue module) and letting the GUI thread take them off.
> > That should ease up any critical-section issues.
> 
> Thx, this sounds intresting. But I should have to change nntplib, should I 
> not? That I should use queues, is obvious. Should I insert enqueueing (?)  
> at the position I marked in my first posting?
> 
> Maybe the best solution would be to use QSockets (as I work with PyQt). Then 
> I can use Qt signaling in a very natural way. I could create a new, 
> asynchronous version of nntplib, that works with Qt signals (and this seems 
> easy as nntplib is nicely documented and clear). What do you think of this?

You could also consider switching to Twisted
(http://www./twistedmatrix.com) for the networking part of your
application. It's an asynchronuous networking framework which includes
support for NNTP clients and servers. I personally haven't yet grokked
the async world view, but I've started to try writing a NNTP proxy with
it.

Gerhard
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