Ask HN: Comet in Python--suggestions?

4 points by aneel99 16y ago ↗ HN

Hi all,

This weekend I'm planning to play with some Comet stuff using Python (that I can run on MS-Windows). Couple of days back someone posted a Comet Python framework (not Tornedo) whose name I cannot recall? Can you please give some good suggestions?

Also, I don't have any experience with Python web-frameworks so a question (probably a stupid one)

1- If I use Django will I still have to use a a Comet-based server? How does a comet server fit into the picture if I'm planning to use Django? Does anyone has any experience/thoughts on this.

Any help is appreciated.

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ash 16y ago ↗

Check out Spawning [1], which uses eventlet [2], which uses greenlet [3].

You will likely have problems with Windows though...

[1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Spawning/ [2]: http://eventlet.net [3]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet

aneel99 16y ago ↗

Thank you. Any idea as to what kind of problems I can run into on Windows?

ash 16y ago ↗

I haven't tried, but according to http://eventlet.net/doc (used Google cache - it's down for me at the moment):

Areas That Need Work

* Not tested on Windows

* There are probably some simple Unix dependencies we introduced by accident. If you’re running Eventlet on Windows and run into errors, let us know.

* The eventlet.processes module is known to not work on Windows.

peterbe 16y ago ↗

Diesel? http://dieselweb.org/lib/

Hurricane? http://github.com/ericflo/hurricane