On Dec 2, 2007 10:26 PM, Christopher Armstrong <<a href="mailto:radix@twistedmatrix.com">radix@twistedmatrix.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all. I'd like to make it possible to use the Python OpenID<br>asynchronously, specifically with the Twisted library.</blockquote><div><br>On Dec 3, 2007 2:27 AM, Kevin Turner <<a href="mailto:kevin@janrain.com">
kevin@janrain.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Except, and this is a thing I only just realized, it would mess with our<br>> ability to maintain line-by-line ports to PHP and Ruby. </div><div><br>Btw, (and I'm not sure how well this fits with Twisted), I've been looking into using co-routines [1] for asynchronous operations.
<br><br>What co-routines bring is the ability to keep existing linear code, and just by adding the yield for the blocking operations you gain the asynchronous nature of the call.<br><br>Co-routines do need a trampoline to 'run' them and keep everything going. The one supplied in the PEP isn't great, and I had to tweak it a fair amount to get it do do what I wanted it to. I'm happy to supply what code I have so far, just let me know.
<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/</a><br></div></div><br>-- <br>- Norman Rasmussen<br> - Email: <a href="mailto:norman@rasmussen.co.za">norman@rasmussen.co.za
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