The asynchat Module
The asynchat module is an extension to asyncore. It
provides additional support for line-oriented protocols. It also
provides improved buffering support, via the push
methods and the “producer” mechanism.
Example 7-12 implements a very minimal HTTP responder. It simply returns an HTML document containing information from an HTTP request (the output appears in the browser window).
Example 7-12. Using the asynchat Module to Implement a Minimal HTTP Server
File: asynchat-example-1.py import asyncore, asynchat import os, socket, string PORT = 8000 class HTTPChannel(asynchat.async_chat): def _ _init_ _(self, server, sock, addr): asynchat.async_chat._ _init_ _(self, sock) self.set_terminator("\r\n") self.request = None self.data = "" self.shutdown = 0 def collect_incoming_data(self, data): self.data = self.data + data def found_terminator(self): if not self.request: # got the request line self.request = string.split(self.data, None, 2) if len(self.request) != 3: self.shutdown = 1 else: self.push("HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n") self.push("Content-type: text/html\r\n") self.push("\r\n") self.data = self.data + "\r\n" self.set_terminator("\r\n\r\n") # look for end of headers else: # return payload. self.push("<html><body><pre>\r\n") self.push(self.data) self.push("</pre></body></html>\r\n") self.close_when_done() class HTTPServer(asyncore.dispatcher): def _ _init_ _(self, port): self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) self.bind(("", port)) self.listen(5) def handle_accept(self): ...Get Python Standard Library now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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