Evergreen: cooperative multitasking and i/o

Overview

Evergreen is a cooperative multitasking and i/o library for Python. It provides equivalent primitives to those for thread programming, but uses a cooperative model instead.

Operations are driven by an event loop which will run the given tasks and i/o operations in a non-blocking manner while presenting the user a synchronous, blocking API.

Features:

• Cooperative multitasking
• Cooperative synchronization primitives: locks, events, queues, channels
• Futures API (almost) compatible with the standard library
• Cooperative versions of several standard library modules
• Ability to monkey patch standard library modules to make them cooperative

Running the test suite

There are several ways of running the test suite:

• Run the test with the current Python interpreter:

  From the toplevel directory, run: nosetests -v

• Use Tox to run the test suite in several virtualenvs with several interpreters

  From the toplevel directory, run: tox -e py26,py27,py32, py33 this will run the test suite on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 (you'll need to have them installed beforehand)

CI status

Documentation

http://readthedocs.org/docs/evergreen/

Author

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>

Code written by other authors has been adapted for use with Evergreen, check the NOTICE file.

License

Unless stated otherwise on-file Evergreen uses the MIT license, check LICENSE and NOTICE files.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, fork the project, make a patch and send a pull request. Have a look at the surrounding code and please, make yours look alike :-) If you intend to contribute a new feature please contact the maintainer beforehand in order to discuss the design.