[Twisted-Python] Using Twisted together with Windows Namespace Extensions

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 12:33, Thorsten Henninger wrote:

> The challenge on writing something like this is, that once Windows asks 
> my ActiveX component to open a folder, a file
> or any other object, Windows expects an immediate answer. But asking by 
> twisted server just returns a deferred.

You probably want to run a thread (or more, depends what the APIs on the
windows side expect) that runs in parallel to the Twisted thread, and
blocks until Deferreds have results, and use it to handle  these
requests.

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