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

[Robert P. <rob...@gm...>]

OK, so I guess I need to back out on the claim that the --with-pth
option made a difference.

I rebuilt python 2.4 with all default options, and it runs as expected.

So, all I can claim is that the default, system installed python has issues.

cheers,
rob


On 11/16/06, Rich Holm <rh...@ql...> wrote:
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>
> 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
>
>
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