On Thursday 11 August 2005 18:34, Dan wrote: > > The server should accept connections from new players and be able to > > handle multiple games concurrently. > > Multiple threads would be the way to go for a real application. But if > you want to avoid the complexity involved in threading and > synchronization in this exercize, you can avoid threads by using > "select" instead: > http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-select.html > > The "select" function allows you to determine (without blocking) which > sockets have input available. > > Python's "select" is a wrapper for the C function with the same name. On > Unix you can learn more about it using "man select". >
Thanks Dan. Assuming the server accepts connections in an endless loop, how would I handle communication without additional threads and create new games in that loop? Could you give me pseudo-code for this? Thanks, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
