On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Tim Allen <screwt...@froup.com> wrote:
> In Guido's keynote at PyCon 2013, apparently he talked about adding an > async I/O module to Python 3.4. It looks like his slides can be viewed > here: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/xknbe58zcvjhzhv/PyCon2013.pptx > > ...while this is the PEP he's talking about: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/ > > At first glance, the proposed reactor API looks very much like Twisted's > (or, to be fair, GTK's, or possibly any number of other async event loop > I'm less familiar with) but rather than Deferreds and callbacks, the API > will be based around Futures (similar, but not identical, to Python > 3.2's concurrent.futures.Future class), and an inlineCallbacks-style > decorator for generators. > There's two parts: one is a standardized, pluggable API for event loops. It's explicitly based on Twisted's, and will be easy to add a Twisted implementation. The generator thing is layered on top, and somewhat optional, in theory. -Itamar
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