Re: [pygame] network

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Jasper Phillips wrote:
> Besides, what other alternative is there?  Python's socket module?!
I'm just curious on this one. I've never done any network programming 
farther than testing a connection and passing a string or two back and 
forth. I've heard people say that socket level programming is bad, but 
never the reasons why.

I've read code that uses both sockets and twisted, and personally, the 
vanilla sockets always looks like a win to me. The benefit of twisted is 
that it supports about every protocol in use. But if you are just going 
to be passing your own message types over the socket, why bother?

When you say you prefer twisted, how are you using it? Isn't it just 
some tool for "send a message", "has a message arrived"? How is that 
better than socket with select? Or if you need, the asyncore module has 
already tied those together for you.

The Twisted documentation I've read starts like "you don't write 
applications that use twisted, you write libraries that plugin to it".

Personally, I still intend to use sockets at some point when I add 
networking to a game. :]