[Python-ideas] [Value Returning Threard]

[George Sakkis]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM, yoav glazner <yoavglazner at 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?

You're looking for the threadmethod decorator [1]. I'm not sure it's
robust and useful enough to be included in the standard library
though.

George

[1] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440569/