Re: socket programming

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Date	2013-05-06 19:54 +0100
Subject	Re: socket programming
From	Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On 6 May 2013 17:05, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never used Twisted, so I can't say how good it is. All I know is
> that what I learned about socket programming in C on OS/2 is still
> valid on Windows and on Linux, and in every language I've ever used
> (bar JavaScript and ActionScript, which are deliberately sandboxed and
> thus don't have direct socket calls available). So take your pick: Go
> with Twisted, and bind yourself to a particular library, or go with
> BSD sockets, and do the work yourself. Like everything else in
> programming, it's a tradeoff.

OTOH Twisted can handle much more than socket programming. On the
third hand Twisted has its own learning curve as well...

-- 
Arnaud

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socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 19:13 -0700
  Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 12:23 +1000
    Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 20:37 -0700
      Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 13:56 +1000
        Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 21:03 -0700
  Re: socket programming Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-05-04 11:37 +0200
    Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 20:00 +1000
    Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-06 08:54 -0700
      Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 02:05 +1000
      Re: socket programming Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 19:54 +0100

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