[Stackless] Stackless and Psyco

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Christopher Armstrong wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>  A fourth option, I suppose, would be to use
>> yield Yet
>> yield Another
>> yield Style
>> yield of
>> yield explicitly
>> yield asynchronous
>> yield socket
>> yield code
>> but I don't there there is a good framework that supports this quite 
>> yet (I've personally integrated such a beast with Twisted, and PEAK 
>> events is similar, so I know this approach does work and is a bit 
>> more sane than "raw" Twisted).
>
> I assume you have checked out twisted.flow? Oh right. I remember. You 
> wrote the original 'flow' module and then cce stole the name ;-) I 
> recently used it to port some blocking code to Twisted and it made me 
> as happy as a clam :) Of course, it's not the most concise thing, 
> requiring something like:

I still haven't used *the* twisted.flow, because my simpler flow worked 
just fine and I understood it perfectly (being the author and all).  
Doing exception handling with generator-style stuff SUUUUCKS though 
(f.ex., no try:finally:).  Next time I do a bunch of socket code, I'm 
going to do it in stackless..  I've already started on a barebones 
networking framework that will hopefully interoperate with existing 
twisted, blocking-style, and medusa/asyncore style code.

> But it's still incredibly useful. I've been thinking about using 
> bytecode hacks to implement a 'wait()' macro. You would say something 
> like:
>
> def myCodeThatUsedToBlock():
>  return wait(getDeferred())
>
> evil.flowify()
>
> And it would search the current module for functions that call 'wait', 
> convert the 'wait' calls to the previous 'yield' dance, and 
> automatically wrap them with functions that call flow.Deferred on 
> their result... :-D

Yes, I considered this too, but it's far nicer to just use Stackless, 
where foo.bar() can do *whatever it needs to do* :)  That's why I like 
it.  I tried to do something like this with my original 'flow' -- 
however, I eventually remembered "explicit is better than implicit" and 
"simple is better than complex" and I just let it go and did it the 
straightforward way.

-bob


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