python-csp: Communicating Sequential Processes for Python.

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/python-csp/

Copyright (C) Sarah Mount, 2009 under the GNU GPL v2. See the file

LICENSE for more details.

Installation:

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python-csp can be installed using PIP (PIP Installs Python):

$ sudo pip install python-csp

or from a source distribution using setup.py:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Introduction.

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python-csp adds C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare's Communicating Sequential

Processes to Python. A brief example:

>>> @process

... def writer(channel, n):

... for i in xrange(n):

... channel.write(i)

... channel.poison()

... return

...

>>> @process

... def reader(channel):

... while True:

... print channel.read()

...

>>> chan = Channel()

>>> Par(reader(chan), writer(chan, 5)).start()

0

1

2

3

4

>>>

Documentation.

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There are several sources of documentation for python-csp:

* If you are running the python-csp shell, type "info csp" to list

available in-shell help.

* A user guide exists online at:

http://code.google.com/p/python-csp/wiki/Tutorial

* tutorial/ contains code from the tutorial pages on the wiki.

* docs/ contains API documentation generated directly from the

python-csp source code.

* examples/ contains some larger example programs.

Publications.

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S. Mount, M. Hammoudeh, S. Wilson, R. Newman (2009) CSP as a

Domain-Specific Language Embedded in Python and Jython. In Proceedings

of Communicating Process Architectures 2009. Eindoven,

Netherlands. 1st -- 4th November 2009. Published IOS Press.