Opposite of yield?

[Jan Decaluwe]

achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> >
> >
> > Queue.Queue.get() ...
> >
> 
> That looks good.  But that needs a thread to block, right?
> A generator manages to run without being a thread (at least
> overtly).  If we have the suck() statement, we also need
> something that's the opposite of a generator (a Sucker?)
> and something that's the opposite of an iterator (a Suckee?).
> I'm starting to get an idea why this is completely not all
> there.
> 
> The main question this raises is "How lightweight are threads?"
> Can I program with dozens or hundreds of python threads in a
> program (for example under Windows) and not notice that this is
> an inefficient or inept coding style?
> 
> Al

You may want to check out how such things are done with my MyHDL 
package. The target application is hardware design, but the idea 
is more probably general.

    http://jandecaluwe.com/Tools/MyHDL/manual/model-obj.html

Jan

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