On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > These days I think I'd use a LateFunction (a facility of my own which is > a lot like the futures module) which returns a callable when you submit > a function; the worker thread runs the submitted function and catches the > return value or raised exception. Anyone who calls the returned callable > later gets the return value or the exception reraised as appropriate, > so one can avoid the dangerous "catch everything and log" scenario.
I like this :) I guess you call this a Proxy Object although your calling it a LateFunction seems more "fitting" :) cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
