Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Pykka
Version: 0.2
Summary: Pykka makes actors look like regular objects
Home-page: http://github.com/jodal/pykka
Author: Stein Magnus Jodal
Author-email: stein.magnus@jodal.no
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Description: Pykka
        =====
        
        Pykka is a concurrency abstraction which makes actors look like regular
        objects.
        
        It lets you call methods on an actor like you would on a regular object, but it
        runs the code in the actor's own thread. Similarily, when you access the
        actor's fields, they are read in the actor's thread, serialized and copied to
        the reading thread.
        
        Both method calling and attribute reads returns futures which ensures that the
        calling thread does not block before the value from the object's thread is
        actually used.
        
        Pykka is similar to typed actors in the Akka framework.
        
        
        What can it do?
        ---------------
        
        Given the following code::
        
            from pykka import Actor
        
            class Adder(Actor):
                def add_one(self, i):
                    print '%s: %d' % (self.name, i)
                    return i + 1
        
            class Counter(Actor):
                def count_to(self, target):
                    i = 0
                    while i < target:
                        print '%s: %d' % (self.name, i)
                        i = self.other.add_one(i + 1).get()
        
            if __name__ == '__main__':
                adder = Adder().start()
                counter = Counter(other=adder).start()
                counter.count_to(10).get() # Block until finished
                counter.stop()
                adder.stop()
        
        We get the following output::
        
            $ PYTHONPATH=. python examples/counter.py
            Thread-2: 0
            Thread-1: 1
            Thread-2: 2
            Thread-1: 3
            Thread-2: 4
            Thread-1: 5
            Thread-2: 6
            Thread-1: 7
            Thread-2: 8
            Thread-1: 9
        
        See the ``examples/`` dir for more runnable examples.
        
        
        License
        -------
        
        Pykka is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See ``LICENSE`` for
        the full license text.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
