beanstalkc A lot of miscellaneous work

Nice project you've got! I made a bunch of changes here:

Merge in the wip-reconnect branch, which gives a big improvement in robustness.
Rename README and TUTORIAL to .md files, for GitHub user-friendliness, and expand the README.
Add a connection timeout. We can't do a general socket timeout, but we can add a timeout to the socket's initial connection attempt, which could be useful.
Get rid of the dependency on PyYaml, replacing it with a custom parser that's more compatible with beanstalkd, and about 30 times faster. Adjust documentation to match.
Add basic docstrings to all public methods.

There was also a brief attempt to make connections thread-local, but that patch was reverted. The Right Thing in this case is probably to keep thread-local connection pools, like they do over in redis-py.

Anyway, you've made what is easily the best beanstalkd client for Python, so thanks for that.

Jan 23 '11 00:01 PeterScott

Peter, thanks a lot for this contribution. I'll review and handle it in separate parts over the next few days.

First up, the easiest part: the very documentation improvements are merged in 07a9b29e08f9952d3ea21d45b0bba317cbb93c41.

Jan 28 '11 02:01 earl

I merged the connection timeout parameter in cc22cefbd7f29f4056a7bc44092e4396f0f756c0. This is a good idea, even independently of the reconnection stuff in wip-reconnect.

Note that I made two minor modifications:

I renamed the parameter to connect_timeout
Instead of a custom default timeout, we're now falling back on socket.getdefaulttimeout (which is typically None, unless set by the user)

Jan 28 '11 03:01 earl

Any updates on this?