SocketServer and timers

[alf]

bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com wrote:
> alf wrote:
> 
>>I have one thread app using SocketServer and use server_forever() as a
>>main loop. All works fine, but now I need certain timer checking let's
>>say every 1 second something and stopping the main loop. So questions are:
>>	-how to stop serve_forever
> 
> 
> Override serve_forever() and replace "while 1:" with something like
> "while self.continue_flag:".
> 
> 
>>	-how to implement timers
> 
> 
> You could override get_request(), and use select.select() to wait for
> either the socket to become readable (so the accept() won't block), or
> a timeout to expire. If you are not already, use the threading or
> forking
> mixin so that the request handler won't stop everthing if it blocks.
> 
> 

thx for a suggestion, will try it out ...