Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a look at that thread and say whether it looks like a

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Jon Ribbens wrote: Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a look at that

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Josiah Carlson
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some discussion, Aahz suggested that I discuss the problem here, on python-dev. He seemed to think that the problem I saw may have been an indication of a bug in python. Could anyone take a look at that thread and say whether it looks like a

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Aahz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One small wrinkle (and the reason I suggested bringing this to python-dev): I suspect that the problem is not a bug, but simply the occasional failure of sockets. When that happens in a threaded app without timeouts, eventually threads die (block forever). But

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Aahz wrote: One small wrinkle (and the reason I suggested bringing this to python-dev): I suspect that the problem is not a bug, but simply the occasional failure of sockets. When that happens in a threaded app without timeouts, eventually threads die (block forever). IIRC, my whole

Re: [Python-Dev] thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-14 Thread Jon Ribbens
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tonight I should have time to pull an old copy of the code out of CVS and recreate the test script that I used. Once I have, it should be a matter of feeding a big list of email addresses to the script and waiting a couple of minutes for the script