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docutils does not support asynchronous use

#71 docutils does not support asynchronous use

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Updated: 2020-08-26

Created: 2020-08-04

Creator: Chris Sewell

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I have recently developed a Langauage Server Protocol (LSP) for rST: https://github.com/chrisjsewell/rst-language-server. However, to do that I had to monkey patch aspects of docutils. nodes, roles and directives are all stored in global, mutable dictionaries, which is not thread-safe and a poor design choice for a modern parser

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Chris Sewell - 2020-08-04

https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#25-global-variables

Avoid global variables.

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engelbert gruber - 2020-08-05

david's mantra "contributions welcome".

i would not apply a big patch if you send one
but try to break it up and apply things piecewise
because things need to be tested and some people nag about documentation

thanks in advance

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Chris Sewell - 2020-08-09

and I will be happy to do that, when docutils moves to git 😉

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Günter Milde - 2020-08-24

We can work with patches done with Git.

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Günter Milde - 2020-08-26

Ticket moved from /p/docutils/bugs/401/

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