PyDispatcher Multi-producer Multi-consumer Observables

PyDispatcher provides the Python programmer with a multiple-producer-multiple-consumer signal-registration and routing infrastructure for use in multiple contexts. The mechanism of PyDispatcher started life as a highly rated recipe in the Python Cookbook. The project aims to include various enhancements to the recipe developed during use in various applications. It is primarily maintained by Mike Fletcher. A derivative of the project provides the Django web framework's "signal" system.

Installation

PyDispatcher is available on PyPI via standard PIP:

pip install PyDispatcher

Usage

Documentation is available for detailed usage, but the basic idea is:

from pydispatch import dispatcher

metaKey = "moo"
MyNode = object()
event = {"sample": "event"}


def callback(event=None):
    """Handle signal being sent"""
    print("Signal received", event)


dispatcher.connect(callback, sender=MyNode, signal=metaKey)
dispatcher.send(metaKey, MyNode, event=event)

Scaling

Two structures keep dispatch cost proportional to the work a signal actually implies rather than to the size of the program around it.

Wiring many receivers to one sender. connect() guards against registering the same receiver twice for a (sender, signal) pair. An index of what is already registered answers that in constant time, so wiring N receivers to a shared sender costs O(N) rather than O(N²). The index is an optimisation hint: every real registration records itself there, so "not registered" is always trustworthy, and a stale "registered" costs one scan and nothing else.

Calling a receiver. robustApply passes a receiver only the arguments it will accept, which means knowing its parameters. Those come from the receiver's code object, which never changes, so they are derived once and reused -- robustapply.SIGNATURE_CACHE_SIZE bounds how many are remembered. A call with no keyword arguments needs no signature at all, since there is nothing to subset.

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