[Twisted-Python] Using Twisted together with Windows Namespace Extensions
andrew-twisted at puzzling.org
Tue Mar 2 07:30:00 EST 2004
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:49:24AM +0100, Thorsten Henninger wrote:
> Well, I do not really understand, how they differ.
> For example:
> and what is the difference between
> threads.deferToThread and reactor.callInThread ?
> Both methods worked fine.
Have you seen these links?
Note that deferToThread is just a simple (but useful!) wrapper around
callInThread -- you can read the implementation in
twisted/internet/threads.py, it's quite short.
Let us know if it still doesn't make sense. Those docstrings are a little
> Is it threadsafe to run the reactor in a thread?
The reactor doesn't care which thread it is run in (although if it's not
Python's main thread you might want to set installSignalHandlers=0).
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