tractor/examples/actor_spawning_and_causalit...

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import trio
import tractor
async def movie_theatre_question() -> str:
'''
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() -> None:
'''
The main ``tractor`` routine.
'''
an: tractor.ActorNursery
async with tractor.open_nursery() as an:
portal: tractor.Portal = await an.start_actor(
'frank',
# enable the actor to run funcs from this current module
enable_modules=[__name__],
)
print(await portal.run(movie_theatre_question))
# call the subactor a 2nd time
print(await portal.run(movie_theatre_question))
# the async with will wait indefinitely for "frank" because
# its runtime remains active until explicitly cancelled
await portal.cancel_actor()
if __name__ == '__main__':
trio.run(main)