Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: Pykka
Version: 0.16
Summary: Pykka is easy to use concurrency using the actor model
Home-page: http://pykka.readthedocs.org/
Author: Stein Magnus Jodal
Author-email: stein.magnus@jodal.no
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Description: =====
        Pykka
        =====
        
        .. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/jodal/pykka.png?branch=master
        
        The goal of Pykka is to provide easy to use concurrency abstractions for Python
        by using the `actor model <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model>`_.
        
        Pykka provides an actor API with two different implementations:
        
        - **ThreadingActor** is built on the Python Standard Library's `threading` and
          `Queue` modules, and has no dependencies outside Python itself. It plays well
          together with non-actor threads.
        
        - **GeventActor** is built on the `gevent <http://www.gevent.org/>`_ library.
          gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to
          provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop. It is
          generally faster, but doesn't like playing with other threads.
        
        Much of the naming in Pykka is inspired by the `Akka <http://akka.io/>`_
        project which implements actors on the JVM. Though, Pykka does not aim to be a
        Python port of Akka.
        
        
        Project resources
        =================
        
        - `Documentation <http://pykka.readthedocs.org/>`_
        - `Source code <http://github.com/jodal/pykka>`_
        - `Issue tracker <http://github.com/jodal/pykka/issues>`_
        - `CI server <http://travis-ci.org/#!/jodal/pykka>`_
        - `Download development snapshot <http://github.com/jodal/pykka/tarball/master#egg=pykka-dev>`_
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
