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``tractor`` tries to take ``trio``'s concept of causal task lifetimes
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to multi-process land. Accordingly, ``tractor``'s *actor nursery* behaves
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similar to ``trio``'s nursery_. That is, ``tractor.open_nursery()``
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opens an ``ActorNursery`` which waits on spawned *actors* to complete
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opens an ``ActorNursery`` which **must** wait on spawned *actors* to complete
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(or error) in the same causal_ way ``trio`` waits on spawned subtasks.
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This includes errors from any one actor causing all other actors
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spawned by the same nursery to be cancelled_.
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"""
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async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
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portal = await n.run_in_actor('teacher', cellar_door)
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portal = await n.run_in_actor('some_linguist', cellar_door)
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# The ``async with`` will unblock here since the 'frank'
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# actor has completed its main task ``movie_theatre_question()``.
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# The ``async with`` will unblock here since the 'some_linguist'
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# actor has completed its main task ``cellar_door``.
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print(await portal.result())
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tractor.run(main)
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returned from ``nursery.run_in_actor()`` is used to communicate with
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the newly spawned *sub-actor*
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- the second actor, *frank*, in a new *process* running a new ``trio`` task_
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- the second actor, *some_linguist*, in a new *process* running a new ``trio`` task_
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then executes ``cellar_door()`` and returns its result over a *channel* back
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to the parent actor
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- the parent actor retrieves the subactor's (*frank*) *final result* using ``portal.result()``
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- the parent actor retrieves the subactor's *final result* using ``portal.result()``
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much like you'd expect from a future_.
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This ``run_in_actor()`` API should look very familiar to users of
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method and act like an RPC daemon that runs indefinitely (the
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``with tractor.open_nursery()`` won't exit) until cancelled_
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Had we wanted the latter form in our example it would have looked like:
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Here is a similar example using the latter method:
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.. code:: python
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print(f"my_service is found at {my_service}")
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tractor.run(main, service_name)
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tractor.run(main, 'some_actor_name')
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The ``name`` value you should pass to ``find_actor()`` is the one you passed as the
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