On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
<< snip >> >> >> In this design pattern, you have something like a dry cleaner's, >> where people submit jobs at the counter, and go away right >> away with a ticket (Python returns -- but keeps running). When >> they come back is more up to them. Work has been done in >> the meantime (or not, if the queue is backed up). >> > > Isn't this the way people use queuing systems (ActiveMQ and the like)? > Or simply multiprocessing + Queue. > > -- > regards, > kushal > Yeah, that's probably right. This is more like a pedagogical metaphor, a mnemonic. As the name for a design pattern, it should probably be confined to Python examples, as that's where the wordplay on Medusa makes some sense, and not just because her hair was all snakes. http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/26771-twisted-medusa-zope Kirby -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list