Python Dataflow Programming

March 27, 2008 by Isaac

Dataflow programming is something new to me.  Lately I've been looking up articles and information about this programming paradigm.  In a sense I suppose that I am familiar with the concepts.  In Linux I use the pipe "|" a lot to pump data from one program to another.  Each program in the stage alters the data in some way.  This is basically what dataflow programming is all about -- piping data through a system of small blocks, with each block altering the data in some way.

In doing my searches I came across an interesting Python package that allows you to do basic dataflow programming.  This article by the author of zflow covers the basic usage and concepts of the package and dataflow programming in general.  I am interested to see if this package keeps evolving.  Now, I just need to figure out a good application in software testing for dataflow programming.  Any ideas?

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