This looks kind of similar to something I did a while back

https://gist.github.com/justinfx/6183367

We even both use the term "invoke"  :-)
Mine uses a posted event to the main loop instead of signals and slots.

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 7:39 AM Marcus Ottosson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I threw something together on a whim and would like your opinion of it.
>
> Inspired by JavaScript and it’s use of callbacks for IO-bound functions:
>
> expensiveFunction("argument", function(result) {
>     console.log("The results are: " + result);
> })
>
> I did this.
>
> def callback(result):
>     print "The results are: %s" % result
>
> invoke(expensive_function, callback)
>
> Code here:
> https://gist.github.com/mottosso/c20df396f4ecc882b53c
>
> Question is, is there already a way of doing this? If not, what could be
> made better, faster, stronger? I’m calling it “invoke” but I’m sure there’s
> already an established term for it, do you know of any?
>
> Best,
> Marcus
> ​
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