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On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:39:05 -0700, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
declaimed the following:

>I keep hearing about all the perils of threading bugs and it just hasn't
>happened to me in Python as far as I know.  The main trick is to not
>share any mutable data between threads.  Instead have them communicate
>by message passing through Queues.  If you've got a lot of tasks in the
>system then it helps to have a bit of abstraction to keep the queues
>organized and make the other tasks addressible by name, but it's all
>pretty straightforward.  You do take an efficiency hit, but if that's a
>big concern you sort of have to look past Python.
>

	That's been my experience too... Threading works for me... My attempts
at so called asyncio (whatever language) have always led to my having to
worry about losing data if some handler takes too long to return.

	To me, asyncio is closer to a polling interrupt handler, and I still
need a thread to handle the main processing.
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