[Python-Dev] threadsafe patch for asynchat

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Steve Holden wrote:
> In case the processing of events needed to block? If I'm processing web 
> requests in an async* dispatch loop and a request needs the results of a 
> (probably lengthy) database query in order to generate its output, how 
> do I give the dispatcher control again to process the next asynchronous 
> network event?

I see. Ideally, you should obtain the socket for the connection to
the database, and add it to the asyncore loop. That would require
you have an async database API, of course.

Regards,
Martin