[mod_python] How does mod_python handle concurrency?

Dustin Mitchell wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:12:39PM -0600, Guy Davis wrote:
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>>We currently use time.strftime() in our CGI code after setting the TZ 
>>environment variable to the user's timezone.  Since I'm trying to move 
>>us away from the mod_python.cgi_handler to our own custom handler, in 
>>order to allow concurrent request handling, I was wondering how to get 
>>around the problem of having to update the TZ env var.
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>If you can look up the time zone offset, you can adjust the timezones
>by simply adding the required number of seconds.  I know this isn't a
>very good solution, but it's what I use for the small stuff I do.
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>I would be very interested in how you determine the user's locale?  Is
>there any trick to interpreting request headers? Or is it a user
>prefererence for your site?
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This is not for the time zone, but we have enhanced the gettext module 
to be able to support multiple locales, and to localize strings per-session.
The user selects a language, the session object passes that to the 
localize function

David