Micro-threading PEP proposal announcement

[Pau Freixes]

Sorry Bruce,

When can I read this PEP ? I'm interesting

Bye

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Bruce Frederiksen <is_this at visible.com>wrote:

> I wanted to make everybody aware that I've posted a (rather long and
> involved) PEP proposal for adding micro-threading to Python on
> python-ideas for feedback and review.
>
> In a nutshell, this proposal implements the Twisted Deferred/Reactor at
> the C level so that the Python programmer gets the advantages that Twisted
> offers without having to write their code in an event driven style.  Thus,
> legacy Python code not written in the Twisted style (Django, TurboGears,
> WSGI apps) will gain the benefits of Twisted with almost no additional
> work.
>
> This PEP provides similar benefits to GUI toolkits where, again, Python
> programmers have been faced with event driven programming.  So using this
> PEP, GUI toolkits could hide this event driven programming from the Python
> programmer, making GUI programming much easier.  For example, you would no
> longer have to use a modal dialog just to make the programming easier.
>
> The C-level Deferreds and Reactor are not made visible to the Python
> programmer (as they are in Twisted).
>
> Rather, what is visible is a very simple micro-thread that allows for
> "start_and_forget" threads, "parallel" threads (where you're only
> interested in the final return value) and fully cooperative threads
> communicating over micro-pipes (which, BTW, gives us a new way to write
> generators that allows one generator to simply call another one to have
> the second generator's output included with its own output without having
> to capture and pass back values).
>
> As there is a great deal of traffic on comp.lang.python, I don't expect to
> be able to keep up with the posts here and would prefer to discuss this
> on python-ideas...
>
> If there is any interest in this, please let me know!  If I don't see any
> interest, I'll assume that it's not solving a real problem and will let it
> quietly die on the vine...
>
> Thank you for your attention!
>
> -bruce
> --
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>



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