Re: [Twisted-Python] [ANN] thimble 0.1.0
On May 19, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Laurens Van Houtven _...@lvh.io wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Glyph gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: I think this is the sort of thing that should move into Twisted itself, eventually. Thoughts? I agree! There's a few things I'd like to work out with the freedom to break things of a v0.x.x semver version before that happens though. Oh, definitely. Hence: eventually. Notably, this thing assumes that all attribute accesses are thread-safe and synchronous. That's often true, but hey, this is Python, so you get to do whatever you want when you access an attribute (and @property even makes it easy to do so). Also because right now I'm suggesting a pool with a singled thread for synchronized access to an object that isn't thread safe; especially if you *know* the object isn't thread safe you probably want something to take care of attribute access too :-) Just write a decorator that programmatically verifies that everything about the attribute it's decorating is thread-safe. Simple! ;-) -g___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
Re: [Twisted-Python] [ANN] thimble 0.1.0
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Glyph gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: I think this is the sort of thing that should move into Twisted itself, eventually. Thoughts? I agree! There's a few things I'd like to work out with the freedom to break things of a v0.x.x semver version before that happens though. Notably, this thing assumes that all attribute accesses are thread-safe and synchronous. That's often true, but hey, this is Python, so you get to do whatever you want when you access an attribute (and @property even makes it easy to do so). Also because right now I'm suggesting a pool with a singled thread for synchronized access to an object that isn't thread safe; especially if you *know* the object isn't thread safe you probably want something to take care of attribute access too :-) hth lvh ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
Re: [Twisted-Python] [ANN] thimble 0.1.0
On May 17, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Laurens Van Houtven _...@lvh.io wrote: Hi everyone! thimble is a library that makes it easy to wrap blocking objects with a thread pool to give you an async API. In particular, it lets you selectively wrap blocking methods, and takes an explicit reactor and thread pool, making it at least slightly harder to do the obvious but potentially bad thing and tricky to test thing (global reactor state, using the reactor thread pool). Thanks for putting this together. (It's a thimble because it lets you play with threads without pricking yourself :-)) I love the name, and the rationale :). This is a small library: it doesn't really fix any big engineering problems, and that's okay. It just removes a bunch of boilerplate I've seen in many a Twisted software project, usually boilerplate that's implemented using the suboptimal methods described above. I think this is the sort of thing that should move into Twisted itself, eventually. Thoughts? The README should run you through it real quick: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/thimble This is just an early release. I expect that the documentation isn't good enough to get best practices out the door, particularly in setting up thread pools. I think it's pretty decent and probably already worth a look, though :-) Thanks to Rackspace for letting me write it open source on company time :-) hth lvh ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
[Twisted-Python] [ANN] thimble 0.1.0
Hi everyone! thimble is a library that makes it easy to wrap blocking objects with a thread pool to give you an async API. In particular, it lets you selectively wrap blocking methods, and takes an explicit reactor and thread pool, making it at least slightly harder to do the obvious but potentially bad thing and tricky to test thing (global reactor state, using the reactor thread pool). (It's a thimble because it lets you play with threads without pricking yourself :-)) This is a small library: it doesn't really fix any big engineering problems, and that's okay. It just removes a bunch of boilerplate I've seen in many a Twisted software project, usually boilerplate that's implemented using the suboptimal methods described above. The README should run you through it real quick: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/thimble This is just an early release. I expect that the documentation isn't good enough to get best practices out the door, particularly in setting up thread pools. I think it's pretty decent and probably already worth a look, though :-) Thanks to Rackspace for letting me write it open source on company time :-) hth lvh ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
