Tuesday, August 09, 2011

greenlet: Lightweight concurrent programming

greenlet: Lightweight concurrent programming: "A 'greenlet', on the other hand, is a still more primitive notion of micro-thread with no implicit scheduling; coroutines, in other words. This is useful when you want to control exactly when your code runs. You can build custom scheduled micro-threads on top of greenlet; however, it seems that greenlets are useful on their own as a way to make advanced control flow structures. For example, we can recreate generators; the difference with Python's own generators is that our generators can call nested functions and the nested functions can yield values too. (Additionally, you don't need a 'yield' keyword. See the example in test/test_generator.py)."