Python asynchronous callbacks and generators

Question

I\'m trying to convert a synchronous library to use an internal asynchronous IO framework. I have several methods that look like this:

def foo:
  ....
  sync_cal         


        

Answer 1

You need to make function foo also async. How about this approach?

@make_async
def foo(somearg, callback):
    # This function is now async. Expect a callback argument.
    ...

    # change 
    #       x = sync_call1(somearg, some_other_arg)
    # to the following:
    x = yield async_call1, somearg, some_other_arg
    ...

    # same transformation again
    y = yield async_call2, x
    ...

    # change
    #     return bar
    # to a callback call
    callback(bar)

And make_async can be defined like this:

def make_async(f):
    """Decorator to convert sync function to async
    using the above mentioned transformations"""
    def g(*a, **kw):
        async_call(f(*a, **kw))
    return g

def async_call(it, value=None):
    # This function is the core of async transformation.

    try: 
        # send the current value to the iterator and
        # expect function to call and args to pass to it
        x = it.send(value)
    except StopIteration:
        return

    func = x[0]
    args = list(x[1:])

    # define callback and append it to args
    # (assuming that callback is always the last argument)

    callback = lambda new_value: async_call(it, new_value)
    args.append(callback)

    func(*args)

CAUTION: I haven't tested this