[Twisted-Python] reactor installation

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:13:20 +0100
"John Kozak" <jk at xylema.org> wrote:

> I have a program which uses Qt and glues to Twisted via qtreactor.  As
> of 1.0.0 (ish - worked with most of the 0.99s), it no longer
> initialises, bleating that a reactor is already loaded.  The structure
> of this program is mildly eccentric: as part of my "explore UIs in
> Python" activity it was intended to have pluggable UIs in wx and Qt
> (actual experience of wx dissuaded me of this), and so it perhaps
> initialises the reactor rather later in the game than usual.  Is there
> a way I can take control over, or at least debug, reactor init?

Here's the rule - installing a reactor should always be the *first*
thing you do, and I do mean first. Importing other stuff before you
install the reactor can break your code.

wxPython support, as it does not install a new reactor, can be done at
any point, IIRC.

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