[Twisted-Python] Reactor hangs on second call to reactor.run

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Apr 18 20:51:10 EDT 2007


On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:41:36 -0500, Ed Manlove <devpypltw at verizon.net> wrote:
>I am creating a Plone product which uses Twisted's nntp module to fetch 
>newsgroup postings and display them within my Plone site.  Within a Plone 
>template I call the Plone External Method, XXXnewsreader. The first time I 
>view the page containing this external method it runs fine but the second 
>time it hangs.
>
>I've run the python debugger and it appears to be running an infinite loop 
>within the function mainloop within the class PosixReactorBase.
>
>Can anyone share some ideas about what I may be doing wrong here or why the 
>reactor appears to be stuck in the mainlop func?  Thanks for any assistance 
>in advance.
>
>I am running under Windows XP using Twisted 2.5.0 and using Plone 2.1.3, 
>Zope 2.8.7-final, python 2.3.5.

Starting reactors multiple times is not currently a supported feature.

Jean-Paul




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