Thanks, Yury, for you quick response.
On 24.06.2015 22:16, Yury Selivanov wrote:
Sven, if we don't have 'async def', and instead say that "a function
is a *coroutine function* when it has at least one 'await'
expression", then when you refactor "useful()" by removing the "await"
from it, it stops being a *coroutine function*, which means that it
won't return an *awaitable* anymore. Hence the "await useful()" call
in the "important()" function will be broken.
I feared you would say that. Your reasoning assumes that *await* needs
an *explicitly declared awaitable*.
Let us assume for a moment, we had no async keyword. So, any awaitable
needs to have at least 1 await in it. Why can we not have awaitables
with 0 awaits in them?
'async def' guarantees that function always return a "coroutine"; it
eliminates the need of using @asyncio.coroutine decorator (or
similar), which besides making code easier to read, also improves the
performance. Not to mention new 'async for' and 'async with' statements.
Recently, I read Guido's blog about the history of Python and how he
eliminated special cases from Python step by step. As I see it, the same
could be done here.
What is the difference of a function (no awaits) or an awaitable (> 1
awaits) from an end-user's perspective (i.e. the programmer)?
My answer would be: none. When used the same way, they should behave in
the same manner. As long as, we get our nice tracebacks when something
went wrong, everything seems find to me.
Please, correct me if I am wrong.
This is also covered in the rationale section of the PEP [2]
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/#importance-of-async-keyword
[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/#rationale-and-goals
Thanks,
Yury
P.S. This and many other things were discussed at length on the
mailing lists, I suggest you to browse through the archives.
I can imagine that. As said I went through of some of them, but it could
be that I missed some of them as well.
Is there a way to search them through (by not using Google)?
Regard,
Sven
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