On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:01:45PM -0800, Mike Orr wrote: > If I understand right, Twisted's SQL libraries allow the query to > run while other requests are being handled. Unless you are waiting on the DB process then it will not help (unless it also spawns off a thread). If it uses threads then I don't see the point of writing an async DB layer. > It's running on Linux now, but it may have to switch to Windows in > the future if company policy changes. So I'd rather have a > portable solution than a Unix-only one. I think threads would be your best choice then. Hopefully we haven't made your life too difficult. Neil