https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet

Lightweight in-process concurrent programming
https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet

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Lightweight in-process concurrent programming

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet
• Owner: python-greenlet
• License: other
• Created: 2011-12-17T21:12:01.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-02T12:12:53.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-23T10:35:19.505Z (7 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.7 MB
• Stars: 1,592
• Watchers: 53
• Forks: 239
• Open Issues: 31
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
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Greenlets are lightweight coroutines for in-process concurrent

programming.

The "greenlet" package is a spin-off of `Stackless`_, a version of

CPython that supports micro-threads called "tasklets". Tasklets run

pseudo-concurrently (typically in a single or a few OS-level threads)

and are synchronized with data exchanges on "channels".

A "greenlet", on the other hand, is a still more primitive notion of

micro-thread with no implicit scheduling; coroutines, in other words.

This is useful when you want to control exactly when your code runs.

You can build custom scheduled micro-threads on top of greenlet;

however, it seems that greenlets are useful on their own as a way to

make advanced control flow structures. For example, we can recreate

generators; the difference with Python's own generators is that our

generators can call nested functions and the nested functions can

yield values too. (Additionally, you don't need a "yield" keyword. See

the example in `test_generator.py

`_).

Greenlets are provided as a C extension module for the regular unmodified

interpreter.

.. _`Stackless`: http://www.stackless.com

Who is using Greenlet?

======================

There are several libraries that use Greenlet as a more flexible

alternative to Python's built in coroutine support:

 - `Concurrence`_

 - `Eventlet`_

 - `Gevent`_

.. _Concurrence: http://opensource.hyves.org/concurrence/

.. _Eventlet: http://eventlet.net/

.. _Gevent: http://www.gevent.org/

Getting Greenlet

================

The easiest way to get Greenlet is to install it with pip::

  pip install greenlet

Source code archives and binary distributions are available on the

python package index at https://pypi.org/project/greenlet

The source code repository is hosted on github:

https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet

Documentation is available on readthedocs.org:

https://greenlet.readthedocs.io