Opposite of yield?

[Samuel Bronson]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:40:37 -0700, achris wrote:

> 
> The yield statement looks to be a big step toward some kind of lightweight
> concurrency-oriented programming in python.  Is there any similarly nice
> way to do the opposite of yield, just sit around (perhaps in the middle of
> a loop) and wait until some other routine (unknown to the waiting module)
> hurls a value in?
> 
> If this is not implemented now, is there any chance that it's on the list
> of things to come?
> 
> 
> Al

Well, aside from Stackless's microthreading, you might want to check out
Twisted -- it isn't as magical as yield, but it gets the job done pretty
well.