Re: [Python-ideas] An async facade? (was Re: [Python-Dev] Socket timeout and completion based sockets)

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Futures or callbacks, that's the question...

Richard and I have even been considering APIs like this:

res = obj.some_call(<args>) if isinstance(res, Future): res = yield res

I thought you had decided against the idea of yielding futures? -- Greg