[Twisted-Python] Multiple reactors, connecting to self, or other solution?

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 22:19:38 MST 2015


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz
<glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/15/2015 10:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>>> Based on my reading/searching, multiple reactors in the same process
>>> (even in multiple threads) is pretty much a no-go because
>>> twisted.internet.reactor is a global singleton.
>>>
>>> I'm also unable to find any information about connecting to self (for
>>> example, to send messages from one reactor to itself).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You can just have a single reactor. E.g. if you do a listenTCP (e.g. on port 8080) on the reactor you can in the same process do a connectTCP to localhost in the same process on the same reactor; just connect to '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost' on port 8080.
>
> But of course you'd use <https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/15.4.0/core/howto/endpoints.html>, not 'listenTCP' and 'connectTCP' directly, right? :)
>
> -glyph


But, but... I LIKE listen/connectTCP.... fits better with how I think.




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