[Twisted-Python] reset/restart reactor problem

[Joseph Newman]

Hi All,

I am porting an academic middleware project, currently implemented in  
C++ and Java, to python. It extensively uses multicast for  
communicating general events and TCP to communicate with a database.  
The multicast messages that I send out depend on the results that I  
first obtain from the database. I would prefer to serialise each of  
these requests in turn, but its not immediately obvious to me what  
the best way to do this using Twisted is.

If I could reset the reactor after each client/server transaction  
that would be by far the easiest. I have been experimenting with  
threadedselectreactor, but I currently don't have an event loop as  
such that is independent of the reactor event loop. Nearly all the  
examples deal with processes that either act as servers or clients,  
rather than combinations of the two.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Joe Newman