On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst <kry...@gmx.net> wrote: > Back when I was still using Perl, there was - and still is, I guess - a > really nice framework called POE, that allowed you to write event-driven > state machines in a really easy and pleasant way. Under POE, EVERYTHING was > an event. When writing a network server, each incoming client connection was > an event, within a connection, each incoming piece of data was an event; when > reading a file, each line fired an event (i.e. I/O was completely > asynchronous); when querying a database, each result row would fire an event. > What was even better, you could very easily plug GTK's or Tk's event loop > into the whole mix and have GUI interactions fire events, too. > POE was one of the nicest software frameworks I have ever used, and I've been > continuously frustrated by the lack of something like it in other languages > such as Python or Ruby.
It does exist :) It's called circuits. Or at least circuits is a framework that I develop and build which sounds very similar to POE in some ways :) cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
