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

[Tres Seaver]

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Jesse Noller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Stutzbach
> <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
>>> import futures
>> +1 on the idea, -1 on the name.  It's too similar to "from __future__ import
>> ...".
> 
> Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in other
> languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that are common,
> and found elsewhere and then renaming them.

- -1 to the name from me as well:  it isn't "scoped" properly to make it
clear what the module is about.  If they were inside a pacakge named
'concurrency' or some such (as hinted by Jesse Noller, I think), the
clash would go away.


Tres.
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