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Re: Design thought for callbacks

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Date 2015-02-22 17:21 +1100
Subject Re: Design thought for callbacks
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.18986.1424586063.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But you are using it. You might not be using it by name, but you are using
> it via the callback function. What did you expect, that Python should read
> your mind and somehow intuit that you still care about this socket
> listener, but not some other socket listener that you are done with?
>
> You don't have to bind the listener to a name. Any reference will do. You
> can dump it in a bucket:
>
> bucket_of_stuff = []
> bucket_of_stuff.append(some_function(a, b, c))
> bucket_of_stuff.append(make_web_server())
> bucket_of_stuff.append(socket(23, on_accept=client_connected))

Sure, and whether it's a name or a list-element reference doesn't
matter: it seems wrong to have to stash a thing in a bucket in order
to keep its callbacks alive. I expect the callbacks _themselves_ to
keep it alive. But I can understand the opposite POV.

ChrisA

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Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-02-21 08:13 -0500
  Re: Design thought for callbacks Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-21 20:57 +0000
    Re: Design thought for callbacks Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-21 23:57 +0200
      Re: Design thought for callbacks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-22 13:04 +1100
        Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 13:11 +1100
          Re: Design thought for callbacks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-22 15:38 +1100
            Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 17:21 +1100
              Re: Design thought for callbacks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-22 21:32 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 22:14 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-23 00:45 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 01:01 +1100
        Re: Design thought for callbacks Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-22 09:52 +0200
          Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 19:17 +1100
            Re: Design thought for callbacks Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-22 10:34 +0200
              Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 19:58 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-22 11:14 +0200
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 21:21 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-02-22 12:28 +0100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-23 00:57 +1100
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-22 16:06 +0200
    Re: Design thought for callbacks Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 00:05 -0700
    Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 08:21 -0500
      Re: Design thought for callbacks Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-02-24 18:20 +1300
        Re: Design thought for callbacks random832@fastmail.us - 2015-02-24 00:29 -0500
          Re: Design thought for callbacks Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-02-25 10:19 +1300
            Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 07:50 -0500
              Re: Design thought for callbacks Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-02-26 18:36 +1300
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 05:58 -0500
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 12:54 -0700
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-02-26 12:00 -0800
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 06:06 -0500
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 06:04 -0500
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 08:34 -0700
                Re: Design thought for callbacks Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-03-08 14:30 -0400

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