[Twisted-Python] Sequential use of asynchronous calls

[Maarten ter Huurne]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
> On 05:20 pm, gabor.bernath at gmail.com wrote:
> >inlineCallbacks are similar to what you are doing. very cool stuff.
>
> Unless I misunderstand, inlineCallbacks isn't just similar, it's exactly
> the same :).  Is there any difference?

inlineCallbacks is better, because it allows you to pass a result to the 
callback of the "outer" Deferred using "returnValue". My implementation just 
passed None.

Other than that, it seems to be the same thing indeed.

> This highlights to me that we need someone to write about more of the
> hidden corners of Twisted; there are a lot of features included that are
> not well-known, and it's not clear that anyone would look for them (or
> if they did, where).

In this particular case, it may be useful to add a section to the Deferred 
Reference.

Bye,
		Maarten
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