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twitter-project/eca/pubsub.py

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import collections
import threading
class PubSubChannel:
"""
Publish/Subscribe channel used for distribution of events.
The operations on this channel are thread-safe, but subscribers
are executed by the publishing thread. Use a queue to decouple the
publishing thread from the consuming thread.
"""
def __init__(self):
self.lock = threading.RLock()
self.subscriptions = collections.defaultdict(list)
def subscribe(self, target, event='message'):
"""
Subscribe to an event.
The optional event name can be used to subscribe selectively.
"""
with self.lock:
self.subscriptions[event].append(target)
def unsubscribe(self, target, event='message'):
"""
Unsubscribe from an event.
The optional event name can be used to unsubscribe from another event.
"""
with self.lock:
self.subscriptions[event].remove(target)
def publish(self, event='message', data=None, delay=None):
"""
Publishes an event.
The event can be accompanied by optional data. A delay can be set to
delay the publish action by the given amount of seconds.
"""
if delay is None:
with self.lock:
for target in self.subscriptions[event]:
target(event, data)
else:
def task():
self.publish(event, data)
threading.Timer(delay, task).start()