Python Socket Programming - need to do something while listening for connections

Question

I am in the process of designing some hardware interface with python. what I need to do is as follows,

~initialize the drivers ~start the device ~create a socket at

Answer 1

You need to make all sockets non-blocking.

Answer 2

Since twisted is out of question, I suggest using the socketserver module.

For an easy start, see this example.

Answer 3

Use Twisted

An example that shows asynchronous networking with core python is here.