Opposite of yield?

[Bob Gailer]

At 01:40 PM 9/10/2003, achrist at easystreet.com wrote:


>The yield statement looks to be a big step toward some kind of
>lightweight concurrency-oriented programming in python.  Is there
>any similarly nice way to do the opposite of yield, just sit around
>(perhaps in the middle of a loop) and wait until some other routine
>(unknown to the waiting module) hurls a value in?

Sounds like a task for a thread that sleeps a while then checks for the data.

Also reminiscent (a long time ago) someone proposed a COME FROM statement 
for FORTRAN to be the inverse of GO TO.

Perhaps a new Python statement "suck"?

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
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