[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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