[Twisted-Python] Asynchronicity

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:09:29 +0100, Simon Pickles <sipickles at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have managed to get a simple server going. It seems to accept multiple
>connections correctly.
>
>I am a little puzzled as to how to achieve an asynchonous application
>using twisted. Twisted itself seems asynchronous, but my code is blocked
>by the call:
>
>reactor.run()
>

Quite so.  reactor.run enters the Twisted mainloop and does not return
until the mainloop is stopped (via reactor.stop).

>Is there anyway I can return from the reactor to run other code, like
>GUI stuff, or other processing?

No, but you can call into your other code from Twisted event handlers or
you can write a custom reactor which integrates an existing mainloop with
Twisted's.  As far as GUIs go, Twisted already includes reactors which
integrate glib, gtk, gtk2, various kinds of Windows loops, wxPython, and
a few others.

Precisely how you integrate two mainloops depends on various details
about the loops in question.  Which GUI library are you trying to
integrate with?

Jean-Paul