Re: [Httplib2-discuss] Asynchronous requests

[Joe G. <jo...@bi...>]

On 11/8/06, Blair Zajac <bl...@or...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're building a PyQt app around httplib2 and don't want to block the GUI while
> httplib2 is making a request of our  database backed REST API.
>
> Besides just doing your own threading around httplib2, is there another way to
> do this?  What about Twisted or asyncore?  I haven't looked into this in great
> detail, so if anybody has any directions and/or experience, that would be
> appreciated.

Right now that's not possible given how httplib2 (and httplib upon
which it depends) is built. Given the number of requests I am
getting it seems like a good idea to add a selector/generator
style of interaction. But that looks like it will take a major re-architecting,
so it may be a while.

   Thanks,
   -joe

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