[Python-3000] PEP 3108 - stdlib reorg/cleanup
Brett Cannon
brett at python.org
Tue Apr 29 22:42:14 CEST 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > * sched
> >
> > + Replaced by threading.Timer.
>
> I don't see sched as obsoleted by threading.Timer. It's much simpler
> to use (no need for locking) and more efficient (no legions of
> sleeping threads). Instead, maybe it should be removed because it's
> trivial to reimplement as well as being overshadowed by all the other
> event loops built into bigger systems (tk, qt, gtk, twisted, etc)?
Fair enough. I tweaked the reasons.
-Brett
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