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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libasynchat.tex b/Doc/lib/libasynchat.tex index 79d4c65311..223bfed746 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libasynchat.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libasynchat.tex @@ -13,26 +13,26 @@ are of variable length. \refmodule{asynchat} defines the abstract class \class{async_chat} that you subclass, providing implementations of the \method{collect_incoming_data()} and \method{found_terminator()} methods. It uses the same asynchronous loop as \refmodule{asyncore}, and -the two types of channel, \class{asyncore.despatcher} and +the two types of channel, \class{asyncore.dispatcher} and \class{asynchat.async_chat}, can freely be mixed in the channel map. -Typically an \class{asyncore.despatcher} server channel generates new +Typically an \class{asyncore.dispatcher} server channel generates new \class{asynchat.async_chat} channel objects as it receives incoming connection requests. \begin{classdesc}{async_chat}{} - This class is an abstract subclass of \class{asyncore.despatcher}. To make + This class is an abstract subclass of \class{asyncore.dispatcher}. To make practical use of the code you must subclass \class{async_chat}, providing meaningful \method{collect_incoming_data()} and \method{found_terminator()} - methods. The \class{asyncore.despatcher} methods can be + methods. The \class{asyncore.dispatcher} methods can be used, although not all make sense in a message/response context. - Like \class{asyncore.despatcher}, \class{async_chat} defines a set of events + Like \class{asyncore.dispatcher}, \class{async_chat} defines a set of events that are generated by an analysis of socket conditions after a \cfunction{select()} call. Once the polling loop has been started the \class{async_chat} object's methods are called by the event-processing framework with no action on the part of the programmer. - Unlike \class{asyncore.despatcher}, \class{async_chat} allows you to define + Unlike \class{asyncore.dispatcher}, \class{async_chat} allows you to define a first-in-first-out queue (fifo) of \emph{producers}. A producer need have only one method, \method{more()}, which should return data to be transmitted on the channel. The producer indicates exhaustion (\emph{i.e.} that it contains |