tractor/examples/actor_spawning_and_causalit...

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import tractor
def movie_theatre_question():
"""A question asked in a dark theatre, in a tangent
(errr, I mean different) process.
"""
return 'have you ever seen a portal?'
async def main():
"""The main ``tractor`` routine.
"""
async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
portal = await n.start_actor(
'frank',
# enable the actor to run funcs from this current module
rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
)
print(await portal.run(__name__, 'movie_theatre_question'))
# call the subactor a 2nd time
print(await portal.run(__name__, 'movie_theatre_question'))
# the async with will block here indefinitely waiting
# for our actor "frank" to complete, but since it's an
# "outlive_main" actor it will never end until cancelled
await portal.cancel_actor()
if __name__ == '__main__':
tractor.run(main)