[Twisted-Python] mutex in twisted?

Gabriel Rossetti mailing_lists at evotex.ch
Tue Mar 11 09:15:47 EDT 2008


Phil Mayers wrote:
> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there some sort of mutex/semaphore code that can be used in 
>>> twisted? I need to run an external subprocess from twisted when I 
>>> get some data from a client and I'd like to make sure that while one 
>>> client's data spawned the process to run, some other client will not 
>>> do the same at the same time, thus my need for a mutex. Maybe there 
>>> is another way to do this in a more twisted sort of way (pun not 
>>> intended)? If so I'd love to hear how!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gabriel
>>>
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>> Oh, I forgot to say, I use this for the process :
>>
>> subprocess.call(["festival", "--tts", filename])
>
> You can't do that. The python "subprocess" module is blocking, and yuo 
> will block the reactor and stop Twisted running.
>
Ok
>>
>> I'm not sure if it is useful for anyone, but I just saw that Twisted 
>> has some sort of process code too, though it looks a bit complicated 
>> for my needs.
>
> You need to use it.
>
> You can use:
>
> twisted.internet.utils.getProcessOutputAndValue
>
> ...if you want to just run a simple command
>
Ok, yes, that is all I need to do, run a simple command.
> As for mutex - since Twisted isn't multithreaded, you can just use a 
> flag variable.
>
Ok, cool, thanks a lot for your help,
Gabriel




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