Guido van Rossum wrote:
> IMO asynchat and asyncore are braindead. The should really be removed
> from the standard library. The code is 10 years old and represents at
> least 10-year-old thinking about how to do this. The amount of hackery
> in Zope related to asyncore was outrageous -- basically most of
> asyncore's guts were replaced with more advanced Zope code, but the
> API was maintained for compatibility reasons. A nightmare.

Perhaps, but please keep in mind that the smtpd module uses both, currently, 
and would have to be rewritten if either is "removed".


Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
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