In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I believe that I've seen this discussed previously, so maybe there's >some interest in it. I wrote a threaded mail filtering framework >a while ago, and one of the modules does address verification >via SMTP. Since smtplib.SMTP uses blocking IO, it can block the >whole interpreter. Sometimes the whole thing would stop working >indefinitely.
That doesn't make any sense. Blocking I/O generally releases the GIL, which is the whole reason Python doesn't totally suck for threading. There may be other thread problems, but I doubt that you have correctly analyzed their source. You can prove this for yourself by trying out my threaded spider at http://www.pythoncraft.com/OSCON2001/ThreadPoolSpider.py -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I disrespectfully agree." --SJM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
