1. Microprocesses - A Generator with Context

Axon is built on top of generators with some added context. Whilst the most common version of this a user actually uses is called a component, this is a specialisation of the general concept - a generator with context.

Exercise: Write a class called microprocess (make sure you subclass "object" !) with the following methods:

__init__(self)

• Takes no arguments. (aside from self)
• into this put any initialisation you might need

main(self)

• Takes no arguments. (aside from self)
• This should be a generator that simply yields 1 value - specifically a 1

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Clearly we can create a handful of these now:

Calling their main method results in us being given a generator:

We can then run these generators in the usual way (though these are fairly boring microprocesses):

OK, so we have a mechanism for adding context to generators, and we've called that a microprocess. Let's make it simple to set lots of these running.