[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

[Jesse Noller]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
>
>  According to that link, Java has a module named "Concurrent" with an
> interface named "Future".  You're proposing a module named "Futures" with a
> class named "Future".
>
> Why not name your module "concurrent"?  That would eliminate the confusion
> with "from __future__".  I don't see a problem with keeping the class name.
>
> Plus, a "concurrent" module might be useful for things other than Futures,
> in the future. ;-)
>

Brian's module is named futures; I am +1'ing his proposal, and also
suggesting we put it under concurrent/ package name. This means you
would do the following:

from concurrent import futures

and in the future:
from concurrent import pool

And so on.