[Twisted-Python] POP3 improvements

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Dec 31 01:42:50 EST 2002


On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 01:40 America/New_York, Andrew Bennetts 
wrote:
>
> I do need to use different protocols, or at least I did at a previous 
> job...
> I had a program that downloaded TIFF files and text files.  TIFF files
> needed to be written to disk and processed, text files were written to 
> disk
> for posterity, but were processed as they came in.
>
> Also, an FTPClient can have multiple commands queued (It seems 
> reasonable to
> be able to do f.cd('foo/bar'); f.retr('file1'); f.retr('file2')), so an
> instance attribute isn't a sane option.
>
> Any other ideas, though?  I would like to make it cleaner.

Crazy idea, but maybe some extension to or subclass of Deferred is in 
order, where you would receive chunks until it's done?





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