On May 23, 2:11 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Just tried it: cPickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'generator'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.generator failed George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
