Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com>: > An asynchronous API lets you start long-running I/O calls and define a > function that is automatically called upon completion. In other words > it's event-driven. Qt may provide everything you need already in an > asynchronous form.
GUI developers have been doing event-driven programming for decades. That's an excellent preparation for network programming as well. Unfortunately, the minds of a generation of programmers were contaminated by the thread craze of the 1990's (Java and Windows NT). Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
