[Async-sig] Blog post: Timeouts and cancellation for humans

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Jan 15 19:41:36 EST 2018


Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 02:09:29 -0800
Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Folks here might be interested in this new blog post:
> 
> https://vorpus.org/blog/timeouts-and-cancellation-for-humans/
> 
> It's a detailed discussion of pitfalls and design-tradeoffs in APIs
> for timeout and cancellation, and has a proposal for handling them in
> a more Pythonic way. Any feedback welcome!

I have little constructive feedback to share, other than it is a very
insightful write-up and the API proposal there is quite interesting.

cheers,

Antoine.




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