Asynchronous IO with select and poll
When a server communicates with a client, the data it receives from the client may come in fits and spurts. If you're using forking and threading, that's not a problem. While one parallel waits for data, other parallels may continue dealing with their own clients. Another way to go, however, is to deal only with the clients that actually have something to say at a given moment. You don't even have to hear them out you just hear or, rather, read a little, and then put it back in line with the...
Using the LinePlot Class
If you thought getting the data was surprisingly simple, drawing a prettier line plot isn't much of a challenge either. In a situation like this, it's best to thumb through the documentation in this case, the ReportLab docs to see if a feature that can do what you need already exists, so you don't need to implement it all yourself. Luckily, there is just such a thing the LinePlot class from the module reportlab.graphics .charts.lineplots. Of course, you could have looked for this to begin with,...
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