\class{async_chat} that you subclass, providing implementations of the
\method{collect_incoming_data()} and \method{found_terminator()}
methods. It uses the same asynchronous loop as \refmodule{asyncore}, and
-the two types of channel, \class{asyncore.despatcher} and
+the two types of channel, \class{asyncore.dispatcher} and
\class{asynchat.async_chat}, can freely be mixed in the channel map.
-Typically an \class{asyncore.despatcher} server channel generates new
+Typically an \class{asyncore.dispatcher} server channel generates new
\class{asynchat.async_chat} channel objects as it receives incoming
connection requests.
\begin{classdesc}{async_chat}{}
- This class is an abstract subclass of \class{asyncore.despatcher}. To make
+ This class is an abstract subclass of \class{asyncore.dispatcher}. To make
practical use of the code you must subclass \class{async_chat}, providing
meaningful \method{collect_incoming_data()} and \method{found_terminator()}
- methods. The \class{asyncore.despatcher} methods can be
+ methods. The \class{asyncore.dispatcher} methods can be
used, although not all make sense in a message/response context.
- Like \class{asyncore.despatcher}, \class{async_chat} defines a set of events
+ Like \class{asyncore.dispatcher}, \class{async_chat} defines a set of events
that are generated by an analysis of socket conditions after a
\cfunction{select()} call. Once the polling loop has been started the
\class{async_chat} object's methods are called by the event-processing
framework with no action on the part of the programmer.
- Unlike \class{asyncore.despatcher}, \class{async_chat} allows you to define
+ Unlike \class{asyncore.dispatcher}, \class{async_chat} allows you to define
a first-in-first-out queue (fifo) of \emph{producers}. A producer need have
only one method, \method{more()}, which should return data to be transmitted
on the channel. The producer indicates exhaustion (\emph{i.e.} that it contains
-- make sure you extend, rather than override, \method{__init__()}
if you want to retain this behavior).
- Channels (instances of \class{asyncore.despatcher}, \class{asynchat.async_chat}
+ Channels (instances of \class{asyncore.dispatcher}, \class{asynchat.async_chat}
and subclasses thereof) can freely be mixed in the map.
\end{funcdesc}