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

MinRK benjaminrk at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 04:17:31 CET 2014


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>wrote:

> 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.
>

Current (14.0) pyzmq supports all the security features in libzmq, but the
extra convenience added by czmq (ZAP handlers, certificates etc.) are in
pyzmq master via `zmq.auth`.

-MinRK


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