George Sakkis wrote: > 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: > > def iterprimes(start=1, end=None): > # ... > yield prime > > > # rpc-related initialization > ... > rpc_proxy = some_rpc_lib(iterprimes, start=1e6, end=1e12) > for prime in proxy: > print prime > > Is there any module out there that does anything close to this ?
Have you tried using pyro to just return a generator? After all, it's just an object with a next()-method, that raises a certain exception. I can't see why pyro shouldn't be able to handle that. diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list