Thanks Nathaniel, Dima!

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:45 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, 'await' makes it *possible* for the function you're calling to return 
> control to the event loop, but returning is still an explicit action that the 
> function has to take.
>
> In asyncio, the only operation that actually returns control to the event 
> loop is awaiting a Future object.
>
> In Trio, we make a documented guarantee that all the async functions in the 
> 'trio' namespace do in fact return control to the event loop (we call this a 
> "checkpoint").
>
> In both cases, the effect is the same: if a function never actually awaits a 
> Future/calls one of Trio's built-in async functions, either directly or 
> indirectly, then it won't return to the event loop.
>
> (And curio actually has a number of primitives that you call with await, and 
> that do in fact return to the event loop, but that still don't actually let 
> other tasks run, which I found pretty confusing. This is one of the major 
> reasons I stopped using curio.)
>
> -n
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 04:32 Dima Tisnek <dim...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> No, in this case fib(1) is resolved instantly, thus it's caller is resolved 
>> instantly, thus...
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 9:28 PM, Pradip Caulagi <caul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was wondering if every use of 'await' should return the control to
>>> event loop? So in this example -
>>> https://gist.github.com/caulagi/3edea8cf734495f2592528a48f99e1d2 - I
>>> was hoping I would see 'A', 'B' to be mixed, but I see only 'A'
>>> followed by 'B'. What am I missing? I am using Python 3.7.1.
>>>
>>> How is my example different from
>>> https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.run?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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