[pypy-dev] Await-keyword

[holger krekel]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:05 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> > 2012/12/20 Jonathan Slenders <jonathan at slenders.be>:
> >> Personally, I think this is a very clean solution for Twisted's
> >> @defer.inlineCalbacks, Tornado's @gen.engine, and similar functions in other
> >> async frameworks.
> >>
> >> Just sharing this information, but I'd also like to know whether Python code
> >> developers would consider to implement this in the Python standard language.
> >> (maybe Python 3000.) I really have no idea what steps are taken before
> >> accepting new grammar, but I'm willing to defend this syntax or to write
> >> some articles about it.
> >
> > That would be an issue for the python-ideas mailing list.
> 
> To expand on Benjamin's answer: we do welcome people that use PyPy to
> play with syntax extensions.  However we're not going to do small
> language extensions in ways incompatible with Python as implemented by
> CPython.  That's why you should discuss your idea starting from the
> python-ideas mailing list.  It is a plus if you have a working
> prototype already, discuss it on your own blog, even use it already in
> medium-scale projects.  But I warn you, adding new keywords is tough.
> :-)

adding to that, there is a recent maybe related PEP draft from Guido
about async IO, see here:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/

holger