I was thinking that maybe one way around the problem of initializing a bunch of coroutines that need to be aware of each other would be to use the coroutine...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 3, 2000 9:41 pm
Sam, Good point. So (1) the children, as shown by your "some_function" below, would experience a Creation + Initialization phase (the first work,work), (2) the...
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Martin Baker
martinb@...
Apr 3, 2000 9:54 pm
... Just be careful about leaks from cycles. :-) Martin...
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Ed N Adams
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 3, 2000 10:30 pm
I've just deposited a new folder and some files into the egroup coroutine file area. The folder is "Text Search examples", and it includes an implementation...
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Sam Rushing
rushing@...
Apr 7, 2000 8:41 am
I've been mucking with this 'hot potato' demo for a while; trying to work around the init-args problem. It demonstrates multi-arg, multi-return, and the use...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 7, 2000 4:59 pm
I would certainly expect that you'd have to kill the routines. All but one of them most recently resumed the next sibling. The one that discovered a zero...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 7, 2000 5:06 pm
Sam, Not that you asked for it, but...part of my soapbox about coroutines is the ability to express the computation in its most natural form, and the ability ...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 7, 2000 7:40 pm
Sam, Here is an infinitesimally more useful example, called "sort_potato". There are from 3 to 5 coroutines, linked in a ring with 'me.next'. To start with,...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 7, 2000 7:45 pm
"Adams, Ed N" wrote: ... Simply compile the source which I sent along today, and you have multi-arg continuations, together with less bugs (and hopefully no...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 7, 2000 8:23 pm
Sam Rushing wrote: ... Yes. If you look at iterate.py, things a slightly more elegant. The iterator destructs itsef when the sequence is exhausted. The objects...
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Sam Rushing
rushing@...
Apr 8, 2000 3:44 am
... For the I/O-scheduler application, it would be nice if coroutines automatically cleaned themselves up on exit - otherwise you might need some sort of...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 8, 2000 7:58 pm
Hi friends, today I wrote a generator class. It should be running at blinding speed. Although it makes use of the convenience of a class, there are no circular...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 8, 2000 8:26 pm
Hi Chris, ... Whoohoo! ... Which seems a sign you might as well use global functions, no? ... So, what would a pythonic version look like? Background: I'm very...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 8, 2000 9:18 pm
... Not if I want to have many generators. ... The pythonic version is in a former post to this list. iterate.py is fairly simple, compared to this one, and it...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 8, 2000 11:42 pm
... Eh? There is no difference at all between: class aClass: def aMethod(self, a, b, c): aGlobalFunc(a, b, c) def aGlobalFunc(a, b, c): do stuff with a, b, c ...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 9, 2000 7:58 am
Ok, I'm better now... I foolishly suggested: def foo(): ...codecodecode... return continuation.next() ...more codecodecode!... And Christian replied: [...
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Sam Rushing
rushing@...
Apr 9, 2000 8:21 am
... Hey, this just made me flash on some deeply buried memories of BASIC! Maybe using BASIC as a take-off point, we could recapture that moment when we were...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 9, 2000 9:01 am
... That's a great one, too! However, there's one complication not covered by the BASIC analogy, that's still causing me trouble: there appear to be two...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 9, 2000 10:07 am
Howdy, ... [global func vs. method that deletes self] Oh-oh. There is some evidence in what you say :-) It is true. As I see myself deleting self in the first ...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 9, 2000 10:33 am
... This is an artifact. Frames should not be exposed to the user at all, since frames are an artifact as well. They just happen to play the role of a function...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 9, 2000 12:03 pm
Hi Stack-Loosers, Due to Just's correct complaint why I make a method when it is no method, here an improved (gen|it)erator implementation. There is more...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 10, 2000 5:01 pm
... From: Sam Rushing [mailto:rushing@...] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:44 PM To: python-coro@egroups.com Cc: 'python-coro@eGroups.com' Subject: RE:...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 10, 2000 7:48 pm
"Adams, Ed N" wrote: ... Note that I have such features in continuationmodule already. You can set up a continuation that dies automatically after its shot. ...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 11, 2000 1:06 pm
Folks, While reimplementing uthread.py in a completely wicked way (inspired by Chris' Tough Generator example) it occurred to me that the value passing...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 11, 2000 3:08 pm
... I could do that. Although at the Moment, I see the return_current() finction instantiation mainly as soemthing that gives very much speed. If we introduce...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 11, 2000 5:23 pm
... That didn't occur to me... But then again, speed is hardly first on my mind... Never mind... ... Good point. [ ... ] ... Erm, this already works: I use it...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 11, 2000 5:26 pm
Initializing a coroutine and starting it up is an intricate dance. The latest (4/7/2k) version of coroutine.py does this dance in a manner that I think is...
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Christian Tismer
tismer@...
Apr 11, 2000 5:53 pm
... I don't see any reason to build multiple entry point functions than for speed. Why not use regular functions and classes? ... It works, since I allowed for...
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Just van Rossum
just@...
Apr 11, 2000 7:11 pm
... Also true. What drove me to stackless, though, is not so much continuations as uthreads: *those* you can't implement in Python without continuations... [...
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Adams, Ed N
Ed.N.Adams@...
Apr 11, 2000 8:10 pm
Oops, my table turned into junk, because of long lines. Here is the table in a smaller space-- Currently Create/Run Ignore InitArgs ... Bef. Create ...
