chinnurtb / gevent-erlang-mode

Ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of some Erlang-style concepts in gevent.

gevent-erlang-mode

Contains ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of some Erlang-style concepts, ported to gevent.

The Mailbox

from erlangmode import Mailbox

process = Mailbox()
process << 'reload', {'timeout': 5}

for receive in process:
    if receive(str, dict):
        command, options = receive.match
        run_command(command, options)
        break

See module documentation for more.

Utilities

from erlangmode import send_after
timer = send_after(10, mailbox, 'message')
timer.reset()
timer.cancel()