Talking of co-operating "threads", I like the idea of greenthreads implemented with the help of greenlets[1] in eventlet [2]. Another similar library is gevent[3] that uses a "hub" like eventlet but that purely uses libevent. You can leave the scheduling upto the hubs in both these libraries which results in lot less boilerplate with the added advantage of writing asynchronous code in the synchronous style that we are generally used to. The hub will take care of switching between the greenlets when they perform a "blocking" operation. It's difficult for me to explain all of these in one single reply. I'd suggest going through some of the examples in their docs for a better understanding of this unusual pattern of writing programs. No callbacks, no reactors, no deferreds ;-)
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet [2] http://eventlet.net [3] http://gevent.org -- Anomit Ghosh _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
