help using sockets, and OOP?

[Jp Calderone]

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:45:34 +1000, Dfenestr8 <chrisdewinn0spam at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:17:31 +0000, Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
> >   Your problem doesn't seem to have anything to do with "OOP" (whatever
> >   that is).  Rather, you are trying to use two blocking sockets at once.
> > 
> >   socket.connect() and socket.recv() are both "blocking" operations by
> >   default - they can take an arbitrary amount of time to return.
> >   Additionally, Botling.receiveData, one of your own functions, is also
> >   blocking: it will actually loop forever, never returning (until an
> >   exception blows it up).  So execution of your program never even
> >   _gets_ to the "bert2 = ..." line.  It's stuck running
> >   bert1.receiveData().
> 
> 
> Ok, so what if I remove the while loop from the Botling class, and include
> it in the __main__ ? Might this work as a solution then?

  No.

>  
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> 	bert1 = Botling("^berty^", "#exciting", "irc.interesting.org")
> 	bert2=Botling("^berty^", "#interesing", "irc.exciting.org")
> 
> 	bert1.connectBot()
> 	bert2.connectBot()
> 	
> 	while 1:

  Try adding a simple print statement here, so you can see how often the program begins executing this while loop.

> 		bert1.receiveData()

  And here so you can see when bert1.receiveData() has finished.

> 		bert2.receiveData()

  And here so you can see when bert2.receiveData() has finished.

  Jp