[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
I would really like to know more about python 2.5's new generator characteristics that make them more powerful and analogous to coroutines. Is it possible for instance to employ them in situations where I would normally use a thread with a blocking I/O (or socket) operation? If it is, could someone show me how it can be done? There appears to be a very limited amount of documentation in this repect, unfortunately.
What do you mean by "new generator characteristics"? AFAIK generators have been around at least since python2.3. Newer versions of python include things like generator expressions (since 2.4 I believe).
However, generators don't help anything in blocking IO-situations, because they rely on co-operatively re-scheduling using yield.
Of course you could try & use non-blocking IO with them, but I don't see that there is much to them.
Or you could go & use a single poll/select in your main-thread, and on arrival of data process that data with generators that re-schedule in between so that you can react on newer data. Depending on your scenario this might reduce latency.
Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
