[Tutor] multipart socket streaming problem: threading??

[richard kappler]

This is a continuation of the thread 'reading an input stream' I had to
walk away from for a few days due to the holidays and then other work
considerations, and I figured it best to break my confusion into separate
chunks, I hope that's appropriate. In short, my script needs to read a
stream of xml data from a socket (port 2008), the data coming in from as
many as 30 different machines, but usually 4 or less, as many as 3 messages
per second from each machine at times, messages block format delimited by
stx(\x02) and etx (\x03), send the data in those blocks to a parser
(already built using lxml and an xslt file) and send it out to splunk using
a native 'event writer'.

And finally, for now, I suspect I'll need to run each 'connection', that is
the data from each sending machine on a separate thread. I'm not well
versed in threading, but have read some of the documentation and it seems
pretty straight forward, if I have questions I will of course ask, but the
preliminary question is: Do I in fact need to do this? Is threading the way
to go or is just running all the data through the same 'pipe'
feasible/Pythonic/efficient?

regards, Richard