On Jul 23, 11:29 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> wrote:
> > The syntax would be something like:
>
> > def work():
>
> > showstatus("building")
> > r = yield runshell("make")
> > showstatus("installing")
> > r = yield runshell("make install")
> > showstatus("Success")
>
> > mygui.startwork(work)
> > # returns immediately, runs work() gradually in the background.
>
> > The catch is that showstatus() would need to be run in the mainloop,
> > so running the whole thing in a thread is a no-go.
>
> > I imagine runshell() would be implemented in terms of QProcess, or
> > subprocess.Popen/os.system and a worker thread.
>
> > Anyone done this already, or do I have to roll my own?
>
> You might want to look at twisted, in particular
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/DeferredGenerator
Indeed, DeferredGenerator looks pretty much what I'm interested in,
thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, it has the big Twisted
dependency. That's probably not a showstopper, but Twisted requires a
degree of buy-in when something smaller would do.
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