On 2015-06-26 10:31 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Ethan Furmanethan@stoneleaf.us wrote:
As Nick said earlier: the caller always blocks; by extension (to my mind, at least) putting an `await` in front of something is saying, "it's okay if other tasks run while I'm blocking on this call."
Apologies if this is a really REALLY dumb question, but... How hard would it be to then dispense with the await keyword, and simply _always_ behave that way? Something like:
Chris, Sven, if you want this behavior, gevent & Stackless Python are your friends. This approach, however, won't ever be merged in CPython (this was discussed plenty of times both on python-ideas and python-dev).
There is also a great essay about explicit vs implicit suspension points: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html
Yury