How can I help?

[Martin Pool]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 01:58 +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:

> BTW, I'm the co-authour of pycurl ( http://pycurl.sourceforge.net ) and 
> could help you out with the network stuff in case you would want to 
> consider using it.
> 
> Of course, for the initial prototype you can use pure Python, but 
> network code is error prone and hard to test and debug. Also, libcurl 
> offers some astonishing performance features ("multi handles").
> 
> OTOS it may not be a good idea to add external dependencies at this 
> time. Still, this might free up your development time for more important 
> things (2 months remain for the linux kernel challenge... ;-))

At the moment I want it to be just one download with no dependencies
other than Python, which tends to rule out any C extensions.  I wouldn't
mind adding it as an optional import, in the same way as cElementTree is
used.

urlgrabber can do multiple threads and keepalives, which are probably
key to getting good performance?  I guess pycurl can do this too.  Do
you have any idea how they compare on other factors?

-- 
Martin

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