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Re: Question about asyncio doc example

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From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject Re: Question about asyncio doc example
Date Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:07:10 +0300
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Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>:

> Callbacks can easily schedule coroutines, but they can't wait on them,
> because that would require suspending their execution, dropping back
> to the event loop, and resuming later -- in other words, the callback
> would need to be a coroutine also.

I guess the key is, can a callback release a lock or semaphore, notify a
condition variable, or put an item into a queue that a coroutine is
waiting on?

Quite possibly. Didn't try it. In that case, callbacks mix just fine
with coroutines.


Marko

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Re: Question about asyncio doc example Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-24 02:58 -0400
  Re: Question about asyncio doc example Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-24 10:23 +0300
    Re: Question about asyncio doc example Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 10:46 -0600
      Re: Question about asyncio doc example Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-24 20:07 +0300

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