PyWeek - The Unexpected

[ Marlow @ 21:53 ] Twisted TV - fairly simple processes

Tuesday: Went to the office and worked hard, but unfortunately not on my game. Kept thinking that there had to be a simpler way of implementing coroutines.

Returned home in the evening and improved my code by taking things out, resulting in fsp.py - Fairly Simple Processes.

It means that I can write multitasking code like this, hopefully simplifying the logic a bit. It's all part of a wild and wacky experiment based on reading a few articles about Erlang.

from fsp import spawn, run

def producer(consumers):
    while True:
        yield True
        for consumer in consumers:
            consumer.send(me)
       
def consumer():
    while True:
        yield wait()
        msg = recv()
        print me, msg

c = spawn(consumer)
for i in xrange(10):
    spawn(producer, (c,))
run()

Next: Re-integrate sprite stuff.

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[ Marlow @ 21:36 ] Twisted TV

Sunday: Devoid of ideas.

Monday morning: Finally, an idea I can live with ... provisionally named Twisted TV.

Monday evening: Started work on it, deciding to try out coroutines and pretending that Python has a shared-nothing, message passing architecture like Erlang. It has been a promising start - no loss of frame rate and it makes for simple logic.

I'm also rather impressed by Pyglet. It shows promise, so I'm using it instead of my usual Pygame/PyOpenGL mix.

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