[Twisted-Python] deferred graph?

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 02:24 am, drsalists at gmail.com wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:53 PM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>On 03:40 pm, drsalists at gmail.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >>Strangely, this doesn't give the report until after the sleep
>> >>finishes...   ?
>>
>>What's strange about that?  "time.sleep(10)" doesn't mean "immediately
>>print out debug information".
>Well, if you read the whole thread, I believe you'll see that this was
>intended to print some debugging information without needing to wait 
>for
>the process to terminate.

I don't think anything in the thread suggested that this approach will 
circumvent a time.sleep(10) call.  In any case, it won't.  Why is there 
a time.sleep(10) call there at all?  Does it do anything except cause a 
problem?

Jean-Paul
>
>>
>> >However, it always appears to print the debug tracebacks for the
>> >deferred
>> >named - in this case, d.  It doesn't appear to be selecting the 
>>correct
>> >deferred(s) to print.
>>
>>
>>All it does is print the debug information for the Deferred you got 
>>the
>>_debugInfo attribute from.
>
>Um, yes,  I was kind of saying that.  Sadly though, this renders it
>ineffective for the purpose it was suggested for.