Sorry Bruce, When can I read this PEP ? I'm interesting
Bye On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Bruce Frederiksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I wanted to make everybody aware that I've posted a (rather long and > involved) PEP proposal for adding micro-threading to Python on > python-ideas for feedback and review. > > In a nutshell, this proposal implements the Twisted Deferred/Reactor at > the C level so that the Python programmer gets the advantages that Twisted > offers without having to write their code in an event driven style. Thus, > legacy Python code not written in the Twisted style (Django, TurboGears, > WSGI apps) will gain the benefits of Twisted with almost no additional > work. > > This PEP provides similar benefits to GUI toolkits where, again, Python > programmers have been faced with event driven programming. So using this > PEP, GUI toolkits could hide this event driven programming from the Python > programmer, making GUI programming much easier. For example, you would no > longer have to use a modal dialog just to make the programming easier. > > The C-level Deferreds and Reactor are not made visible to the Python > programmer (as they are in Twisted). > > Rather, what is visible is a very simple micro-thread that allows for > "start_and_forget" threads, "parallel" threads (where you're only > interested in the final return value) and fully cooperative threads > communicating over micro-pipes (which, BTW, gives us a new way to write > generators that allows one generator to simply call another one to have > the second generator's output included with its own output without having > to capture and pass back values). > > As there is a great deal of traffic on comp.lang.python, I don't expect to > be able to keep up with the posts here and would prefer to discuss this > on python-ideas... > > If there is any interest in this, please let me know! If I don't see any > interest, I'll assume that it's not solving a real problem and will let it > quietly die on the vine... > > Thank you for your attention! > > -bruce > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Pau Freixes Linux GNU/User
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