Stephen Thorne

I like a line based (\r\n terminated) chat server better because you can quite easily demonstrate essential facets: - communication between protocol objects. - connection made and connection lost events...

Lets go with 'no'.

22:04 < Jerub> exarkun: it's an idea that was discussed, including a mainloop implementation that supports async-pep style protocols in stdlib. 22:04 < Jerub> i don't know if it's worth...

Can't this be implemented in the adapter layer? Feed it too much data to .write() and let it optimise this away?

I agree with ssbr. I think producers and consumers should be separated out.

Yes: I want a feature that does this, but no: I think abstract classes do not successfully implement what we need. I think that using `abc.ABCMeta` style abstract base classes...