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[Aaron Bentley]

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John A Meinel wrote:
> My understanding is that the basic cause of this is the
> "make_synchronous" function call. It causes problems if you call it from
> inside itself. Is that correct?

No.  async code cannot call make_synchronous, directly or indirectly.
The problem is that make_synchronous doesn't just process the thing you
want to make synchronous.  Other deferreds can be handled, leading to
concurrency issues.

If there were a way to get the reactor to just process the one deferred
we care about, make_synchronous would be safe, and I'd feel a lot better
about using twisted.

> Is there a way to write a function that does something similar, without
> destroying everything else?
> Or is the real problem the Deferred design?

Seems to be twisted design.

Aaron
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