[Web-SIG] So what's missing?

[Thijs van der Vossen]

John J Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thijs van der Vossen wrote:
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>>>>* Asynchronous fetch.  When working over the Plucker distiller,
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>>>Second, would it be possible to do this without a lot of code
>>>duplication between the current urllib{2,} / httplib libraries and the
>>>new stuff?  Is it worth it, when you can use threads instead?
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>>This is already trivial with the asyncore libraries. If I remember
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> So what is this for?
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> http://asynchttp.sourceforge.net/

 From this page: "Our goal is to provide the functionality of the 
excellent 'httplib' module without using blocking sockets."

> 28k of Python code isn't exactly 'trivial', is it?

Nope, but it's relatively trivial to use the asyncore libraries to 
asynchronous get multiple pages (once again, there is a nice example in 
Steve's book). Providing exactly the same functionality as httplib will 
obviously be more work.

Regards,
Thijs