import gevent
from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_all()
import os

os.environ['MONKEY'] = "True"

import io
from multiprocessing import Pipe
from gevent.socket import wait_read, wait_write


pip = io.BytesIO()
_rpipe, _wpipe = Pipe()
import pickle

def writer():
    for i in range(0, 10):
        print "writing"
        wait_write(_wpipe.fileno())
        array = [1, 2, "hello", {'joey': i}]
        #_wpipe.send("{}".format(pickle.dumps(array)))
        pickle.dump(array, _wpipe)
        gevent.sleep(.5)
    _wpipe.close()
    print "Done writing"

def reader():
    chars = None
    first = True
    print "reading"
    while first or chars:
        wait_read(_rpipe.fileno())

        chars = pickle.load(_rpipe)

        print "READ {}".format(chars)
        gevent.sleep(2.5)


greenlets = []
greenlets.append(gevent.spawn(writer))
greenlets.append(gevent.spawn(reader))

gevent.wait(greenlets)