[Twisted-web] Having reactor run at the main thread make things harder for late adopters

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On 01:05 pm, exarkun at divmod.com wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:41:44 +1100, Andrew Bennetts <andrew- 
>twisted at puzzling.org> wrote:

>>It matters just because it makes it clear that yes,  1Cfrom 
>>twisted.internet
>>import reactor 1D really does Just Work, all the time.
>
>Sure.  But even if it didn't, you'd be alright.
>
>Plus, parameterized reactor makes unit testing easier.

As with most things that make testing easier, parameterizing the reactor 
makes a lot of other things easier too.  My long-term plan (very, very 
long term) is to deprecate and remove the twisted.internet.reactor 
import and eliminate the singleton.  However, that won't happen until 
you can get the reactor from everywhere interesting that might need it. 
See ticket http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3205 for more 
information.