Re: [rox-devel] rox-lib tasks module ideas

[Thomas L. <ta...@gm...>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:29:22 -0800, Ken Hayber wrote:

> It seems that there is no way to kill a Task from the outside.  The only 
> way to prematurely end a running task is to have the task's function 
> (loop) check some flag and 'return' instead of 'yield'.  For simple 
> tasks this is easy but in some cases (multiple yield points) it could be 
> complex.
> 
> Can/Should we add support to kill a Task?
> 
> For example:
> 
> 	mytask = tasks.Task(my_func())
> 	...
> 	mytask.die()

Python 2.5 allows throwing exceptions into a generator, which is probably
the best way of doing it (once 2.5 is the base platform).

> What about also adding a wait() function so that the main task can wait 
> for the task to end (synchronize)?

Yes, I think every task should itself be (or contain) a Blocker so you can
do that.


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