[Twisted-web] Reactor in a multithreaded program
Andrew Bennetts
andrew-twisted at puzzling.org
Sun May 22 17:24:32 MDT 2005
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:12:13PM -0700, Ellers wrote:
> Hi all
>
> What is the right way to use a reactor in a multithreaded program?
>
> The program I'm writing is a command line program that needs to use the
> readline package. Readline blocks so I need to put the reactor (or the
> readline call) in a separate thread.
>
> I can start the reactor ok if I set installSignalHandlers=0. But calling
> reactor.stop() from the main thread doesn't seem to stop it.
Nothing in Twisted is thread-safe, except for reactor.callFromThread. So,
if you want to stop the reactor from thread aside from the one the reactor
is in, you need to do reactor.callFromThread(reactor.stop).
-Andrew.
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