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Re: Standard Asynchronous Python

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On 9/10/2012 7:36 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> The responses have certainly highlighted some errors in emphasis in my approach.
>
> * My idea is to propose a design PEP. (Steven, Dennis) I'm not at
> *all* suggesting including uthreads in the standard library.  It's a
> toy implementation I used to develop my ideas.  I think of this as a
> much smaller idea in the same vein as the DBAPI (PEP 249): a common
> set of expectations that allows portability.

That has been very successful.

> * I'd like to set aside the issue of threads vs. event-driven
> programming.  There are legitimate reasons to do both, and the healthy
> ecosystem of frameworks for the latter indicates at least some people
> are interested.  My idea is to introduce a tiny bit of coherence
> across those frameworks.

I think many developers recognize that some improvment in coherence 
would be a good idea. I occasionally read that *someone* is working on 
common event loop approach, though it has not materialized yet.

> I will need to take up the details of the idea with the developers of
> the async frameworks themselves, and get some agreement before
> actually proposing the PEP.  However, among this group I'm interested
> to know whether this is an appropriate use of a design PEP.

I think so.

 > That's why I posted my old and flawed PEP text, rather than re-drafting
> first.

I think you should do a bit of editing now, even if not a full redraft.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Standard Asynchronous Python "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin@v.igoro.us> - 2012-09-09 20:07 -0400
  Re: Standard Asynchronous Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-10 03:38 +0000
    Re: Standard Asynchronous Python "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin@v.igoro.us> - 2012-09-10 07:36 -0400
      Re: Standard Asynchronous Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-10 13:24 +0000
    Re: Standard Asynchronous Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-10 12:21 -0400
    Re: Standard Asynchronous Python "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin@v.igoro.us> - 2012-09-11 20:40 -0400
      Re: Standard Asynchronous Python Bryan <bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-15 23:45 -0700
  Re: Standard Asynchronous Python Bryan <bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-09 20:42 -0700

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