What are the modules used to write multi-threaded applications in Python? I’m aware of the basic concurrency mechanisms provided by the language and also of Stackless Python, but what are their respective strengths and weaknesses? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you … Read more
I am building a web application that has a real-time feed (similar to Facebook’s newsfeed) that I want to update via a long-polling mechanism. I understand that with Python, my choices are pretty much to either use Stackless (building from their Comet wsgi example) or Cometd + Twisted. Unfortunately there is very little documentation regarding these options and I cannot find good information online about production scale users of comet on Python.