[Python-3000] revamping the io stack, part 2

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 21:10 +0200, tomer filiba a écrit :
> and if we do that already, perhaps we should introduce async
> operations as a
> built-in feature? .NET does (BeginRead, EndRead, etc.)
>     def async_read(self, count, callback)
>     def async_write(self, data, callback) 

I think many people would be happy if the proposal would use the
Deferred abstraction which is built in Twisted. :-)

> many protocols can also be represented as codecs. textual protocols,
> like 
> HTTP or SMTP, can be easily implemented that way:
> 
> class HttpClientCodec( *TextCodec* ): 
>     def __init__(self, stream):
>         TextCodec.__init__(self, stream, textcodec = "ascii")

HTTP can transport binary (non-text) data as well, while having text
headers. How does your proposal address this point?