flowbase / flowbase-python

Python implementation of the FlowBase micro-FBP framework idea.

FlowBase-Python

Python implementation of the FlowBase micro-FBP framework idea, using Python's asyncio library, introduced in Python 3.4/3.5.

Installation

pip install flowbase

Try an example

cd examples
python string_processing_pipeline.py

Expected output:

$ python string_processing_pipeline.py
Printer got line: hi hi for the 1:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 2:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 3:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 4:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 5:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 6:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 7:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 8:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 9:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 10:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 11:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 12:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 13:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 14:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 15:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 16:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 17:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 18:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 19:TH TIME...
Printer got line: hi hi for the 20:TH TIME...

Acknowledgements

Kudos to Simone Baffelli's Pyperator library which showed that it is in fact possible to implement an FBP-like library using asyncio.