On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:08 PM, yoav glazner <yoavglazner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, My Idea is to have a value returning Thread. I'll explain by example. <pycode> def foo(): time.sleep(20) return 'bar' value = thread.startValueReturningThread(foo) #i need a better name for the function...) #here we do some work mg = moonGravity() mg.disable() #now we need the value that foo returned print value #this would be blocking untill foo is done! </pycode> This feature should provide a way to increase performance when possible with simple syntax. What do you think?
Sounds like you haven't heard of Futures - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_(programming) One of probably many recipes for them in Python: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/84317/ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com