> The executor needs to know when no more futures will be scheduled so > it can shutdown its thread/process pool after it has finished the > current work items.
Ah, I see and it's useful indeed. I think it makes things a bit counter-intuitive however. People are used to "with" releasing things right at the end of the block, not scheduling them for later release at an unknown point in time. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig