Pep 342 (val = yield MyGenerator(foo)), synchronous os.system() that doesn't block gui event loops

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Jul 23, 11:29 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> wrote:

> >  The syntax would be something like:
>
> >  def work():
>
> >    showstatus("building")
> >    r = yield runshell("make")
> >    showstatus("installing")
> >    r = yield runshell("make install")
> >    showstatus("Success")
>
> >  mygui.startwork(work)
> >  # returns immediately, runs work() gradually in the background.
>
> >  The catch is that showstatus() would need to be run in the mainloop,
> >  so running the whole thing in a thread is a no-go.
>
> >  I imagine runshell() would be implemented in terms of QProcess, or
> >  subprocess.Popen/os.system and a worker thread.
>
> >  Anyone done this already, or do I have to roll my own?
>
> You might want to look at twisted, in particular
>
>  http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/DeferredGenerator

Indeed, DeferredGenerator looks pretty much what I'm interested in,
thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, it has the big Twisted
dependency. That's probably not a showstopper, but Twisted requires a
degree of buy-in when something smaller would do.