Twisted Deferreds (was: Re: A friendlier, sugarier lambda -- a proposal for Ruby-like blocks in python)

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> But that's just ugly.  The fetchPage function should take the
> callback as an argument.  In an asynchronous system it would even
> be buggy. 

It won't, in my understanding/experience, since the local context
must first terminate before the reactor takes control again and
handles other events. Twisted isn't concurrent like using threads
here, and adding callbacks immediately after getting a Deferred
instance returned is common practice.

> What happens if the page fetch completes before you add the 
> callback?

If the Deferred is fired, all already added {call,err}backs will be
executed. If you add new ones at this point, they'll be executed
immediately. IIRC.

http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/async.html
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/defer.html

Regards,


Björn

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