How should I handle socket receiving?

[Hans]

On Mar 14, 1:33 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 14/03/2011 19:47, Hans wrote:
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> > On Mar 12, 10:13 pm, Tim Roberts<t... at probo.com>  wrote:
> >> Hans<hans... at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> >>> I'm thinking to write a code which to:
> >>> 1. establish tons of udp/tcp connections to a server
>
> >> What does "tons" mean?  Tens?  Hundreds?
>
> >>> my question is how should I handle receiving traffic from each
> >>> connection respectively?
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> >> You're really going to want to use "select".  You can store the objects in
> >> a dictionary where the key is the socket number.  That way, you can use the
> >> result of the select and get your network object directly.
> >> --
> >> Tim Roberts, t... at probo.com
> >> Providenza&  Boekelheide, Inc.
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> > I wrote code like this:
> > main proc:
> > import socket_thread
> > #start 1000 connection
> > while i<1000:
> >      my_socket=socket_thread.socket_thread(i,host,port)
> >      my_socket.send(some_data)
> >      my_socket.recv()
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> This won't run as-is because you never assign to "i".
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> > socket_thread.py
> > class socket_thread:
> >      def __init__:
> >            self.soc_handle=socket.socket(socket.IF_INET,socket.DGRAM)
> >      def send(data):
> >            self.soc_handle.send(data)
> >      def recv():
> >            while 1:
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> > input_list,output_list,exec_list=select.select([self.soc_handle],[],[],
> > 2)
> >                data=input_list[0].recv(2048)
> >                print data
>
> > But it does not work as I hope. main proc can only initiate one thread
> > and then trapped by it, cannot get out.
> > I'm sure I missed something but I don't know. Thanks for any help.
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> Your "socket_thread" class is just a normal class. You create an
> instance, use it to send data, and then call its "recv" method, which
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Thanks.
"i" problem is OK, I can find and fix it easily.  I also understand
the second problem, but I don't know how to fix it. What's your
meaning of "normal class"? Can I specify it as some special class and
then it can work as I hope?
thanks again.