[Twisted-Python] deferred proposed update

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Jan 29 08:09:22 MST 2004


Fabrice Coudert wrote:

> So, I restate the probleme with chainDeferred :
> chainDeferred(d) is equivalent to addCallbacks(d.callback, d.errback),
> but this two methods are not really sort of callback methods for
> deferred coz they didn't return a result.

This is not a problem, this is a specification of the way it works.  
chainDeferred is a holdover from before one could sensibly return one 
Deferred from the callback to another.  If you want to add callbacks in 
some other way, don't use chainDeferred.




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