Re: [Quickfix-developers] AHA! : QuickFIX Python and Twisted

[Rich H. <rh...@ql...>]

Is pth what you want?  pth isn't really preemptive threading.

Cheers,
Rich



Robert Parrott wrote:
> So I updated the verions of python I was using __from__ 2.3.4
>
>    > python -v
>    Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 11 2006, 06:18:43)
>    [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
>
> which, from the rpm spec file, was compiled with options:
>
>    configure --enable-ipv6 --enable-unicode=%{unicode} --enable-shared
>
> To python 2.4.4 complied by hand with the --with-pth option.
>
> After this change, it seems that the code runs fine, with the
> initiator and main threads working in parallel. It seems to invoke
> callbacks fine, and I was able to telnet in and subscribe to a market
> data feed just fine.
>
> As such, my guess is that it's a pthreads issue (on linux) and not a
> python version issue, as such. I know that for Zope, in order to run
> correctly, you need to compile python with threading enabled, so this
> may be the same way (I know that much Zope code is written in C/C++).
>
> cheers,
> rob