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Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

> This is the usual assumption that high-level libraries are made of useless
> cruft piled up by careless programmers. 

It often is the case, particularly in network programming.

But in this case the programmer is Guido, so it doesn't apply. :)


> What irks me with your response is that you phrased it as though writing
> a good event loop was an almost trivial thing to do, which it is not
> once you start considering multiple use cases and constraints. 

Right. But in my programs an event loops does not have multiple usecases. I
know all the details about my usecase. 

I am more concerned that multiple frameworks have their own event loops. 

Sturla