Paul Rubin wrote: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Even simpler to program in is the model used by Erlang. It's more CSP >> than threading, though, as it doesn't have shared memory as part of >> the model. But if you can use the simpler model to solve your problem >> - you probably should. > > Well, ok, the Python equivalent would be wrapping every shareable > object in its own thread, that communicates with other threads through > Queues. This is how some Pythonistas suggest writing practically all > multi-threaded Python code. It does a reasonable job of avoiding > synchronization headaches and it's not that hard to code that way. > > But I think to do it on Erlang's scale, Python needs user-level > microthreads and not just OS threads.
You've just described Kamaelia* BTW, except substitute micro-thread with generator :-) (Also we call the queues outboxes and inboxes, and the combination of a generator in a class with inboxes and outboxes components) * http://kamaelia.sf.net/ For those who really want threads as well, theres a threaded component based class that uses Queues instead :) Best Regards, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list