Parallel/distributed generator

[half.italian at gmail.com]

On May 23, 1:22 pm, Paul McGuire <p... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 2:58 pm, half.ital... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > On May 23, 11:00 am, George Sakkis <george.sak... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I'm looking for any existing packages or ideas on how to implement the
> > > equivalent of a generator (in the Python sense, i.e.http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/) in a parallel/distributed
> > > way. As a use case, imagine a function that generates a range of
> > > primes. I'd like to be able to do something along the following lines:
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> > > def iterprimes(start=1, end=None):
> > >    # ...
> > >    yield prime
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> > > # rpc-related initialization
> > > ...
> > > rpc_proxy = some_rpc_lib(iterprimes, start=1e6, end=1e12)
> > > for prime in proxy:
> > >     print prime
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> > > Is there any module out there that does anything close to this ?
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> > > George
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> I thought you were making a joke about parallel processing.
> I thought you were making a joke about parallel processing.
> I thought you were making a joke about parallel processing.
> I thought you were making a joke about parallel processing.
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> -- Paul

Damn computers!