[Zope] How to create an ansynchronous method

[Ron Bickers]

On Fri September 23 2005 04:31 pm, Chris Withers wrote:

> Ron Bickers wrote:
> > I have no idea.  Maybe it'll do what you want, but I don't understand
> > what it really does just from the description.  The work I needed to do
> > was external to Zope anyway (reading data from a MySQL database,
> > building PDFs with Reportlab, sending email), so it's actually better
> > that I'm outside of it.
>
> The open source Reportlab library right?
>  From what I've seen of their closed source stuff, it's way fast enough
> to do this all on the fly...

What I was doing wasn't fast enough; there were plenty of complaints from 
customers.  But to be fair, it wasn't Reportlab that was slow.

The process had to retrieve hundreds (sometimes over a thousand) of 
name/address records from a database, calculate the length of the longest 
line in each when printed with a given font, pass that information to 
Reportlab to format a page that would print each address centered on a label 
(not center-aligned, but left-aligned with the whole thing in the center of 
the label), attach the resulting PDF to an email and send it on.  I suspect 
the slowest part was going through each of the hundreds of records and 
calculating the size, but it really didn't matter; the whole thing took too 
long to do on the fly.

Reportlab is *nice*, BTW.

-- 
Ron