[zeromq-dev] pyczmq and ctx.set_linger()

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:34:29AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 17 January 2014, Pieter Hintjens said:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Michel Pelletier
> > <pelletier.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, pyczmq is very much a literal 1 to 1 wrapper around the czmq C
> > > interface.
> > >
> > > Note that there is also an "object oriented" interface:
> > 
> > CZMQ was designed to allow an OO interface on top; it may not succeed
> > in all classes. Where it's possible I'd probably not expose the 1-1
> > wrapper at all, and only provide the proper OO interface. (Less
> > confusing for users, maybe?)
> 
> Having played around with pyczmq a little bit for a few hours, I'm
> starting to wonder if that's really the right way to wrap CZMQ. My two
> concerns are 1) import-time overhead and 2) the C-style interface (not
> OO, un-Pythonic).
> 
> I note that pyzmq already solves both of these problems: it's much
> faster to import than pyczmq, and it exposes a nice Pythonic interface
> to the 0mq core API.
> 
> Would it make sense for pyzmq to wrap CZMQ as well?
> 
>        Greg

I've been using pyzmq and didn't even know pyczmq (or czmq) existed
because nothing was missing in pyzmq.

But with zeromq 4.0 and CURVE there are parts that pyzmq lacks.
Notably the authentication and certificate functions. I think it would
be greate to have that added to pyzmq without requiring yet another
module. Either via czmq or simply reimplement it in native python.

MfG
	Goswin