From d1ac84d6ba67665a02d06efef1505a34d203a5ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Naeseth <enaeseth@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:57:26 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Include our own version of isgenerator() for Python 2.5 and
 below.

---
 swirl.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/swirl.py b/swirl.py
index e9b9564..23dbd52 100644
--- a/swirl.py
+++ b/swirl.py
@@ -4,12 +4,19 @@
 Provides some sugar to make Tornado's async stuff more palatable.
 """
 
-import inspect
 import logging
 import functools
 from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
 from tornado.web import RequestHandler, asynchronous as web_async
 
+try:
+    from inspect import isgenerator
+except ImportError:
+    # Python < 2.6
+    import types
+    def isgenerator(obj):
+        return isinstance(obj, types.GeneratorType)
+
 __version__ = '0.1.0'
 
 def make_asynchronous_decorator(io_loop):
@@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ def run_async_routine(*args, **kwargs):
                 web_handler = None
             
             gen = routine(*args, **kwargs)
-            if not inspect.isgenerator(gen):
+            if not isgenerator(gen):
                 # the "coroutine" isn't actually a coroutine; just return
                 # its result like tornado.web.asynchronous would do
                 return gen