Advanced concurrancy

[Calvin Spealman]

Twisted [1] includes lots of support for asyncronous concurrency,
using deferreds. There is also the possiblity of PEP 342's [2]
concurrency through enhanced generators, and being able to pass data
to the generator every iteration. There are ways to simulate this, as
well. I've written a recipe [3] for it over at ASPN.

Personally, I like the generator approach better, because it gives a
feel of threads, but with direct control of the timeslicing, a better
sense of understanding, and doesn't rely on things happening in the
background, like deferreds often do.

On 7/28/05, Peter Tillotson <none at no.chance> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for an advanced concurrency module for python and don't seem
> to be able to find anything suitable. Does anyone know where I might
> find one? I know that there is CSP like functionality built into
> Stackless but i'd like students to be able to use a standard python build.
> 
> I'm trying to develop distributed / Grid computing modules based on
> python. The aim is to be able to use barriers for synchronisation and
> channels for communication between processes running on a single box.
> Then the jump to multiple processes on multiple boxes and eventually to
> MPI implementations. Hopefully, each jump should not be that big a leap.
> 
> Of course it would be nice if there was a robust way of managing
> concurrency in python aswell ;-)
> 
> p
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