How to quit an asyncore dispatcher from a handler?

Question

I couldn\'t find this in the docs, but how am I meant to break out of the asyncore.loop() without using signals?

Answer 1

Another approach is to use the count parameter of asyncore.loop call. You can then wrap asyncore.loop in other logic:

while(i_should_continue()):
    asyncore.loop(count=1)

This won't immediately stop an open connection, or prematurely timeout. But this is probably a good thing? I'm using this when I start a listening server.