ActivePython/IIS Request Concurrency

[Erik Rose]

> It's sufficient. :) Check out 
> http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/082201-1.shtml for a good intro 
> to using pywin32 for ASP.

Interestingly, that page espouses ActivePython, which I'm beginning to 
suspect is nothing more than a thin candy coating around pywin32. Do 
you know whether this is so?

> FWIW, I don't use ASP for anything more than an envelope for "real" 
> Python scripts. [...] Such a scheme can keep you from tearing your 
> hair out trying to mix Python indentation rules with HTML's lack of 
> such.

I hope to make it to that point eventually. Right now, I have >15K 
lines of VBScript that are going to have to interact peaceably with the 
new Python stuff. (This is why I can't even consider CGI.) I hope to do 
a bunch of inversion-of-control in Python and shove the VBScript out 
more and more into peripheral utility functions, where it can be 
translated at leisure.

So, just to confirm, you ran a few instances of my original test 
scripts concurrently, and they completed almost simultaneously? Note 
that your machine may be faster than mine. Does the busy-wait loop take 
at least several seconds to run? If not, it would be hard to tell if 
the instances of it were running serially or not. If they are indeed 
concurrent, I'll be in touch soon to harrass you about your IIS 
settings. :-D

Excitedly,
Erik Rose
Programmer/Analyst
Pennsylvania State University