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

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> I'm somewhat concerned that, as described, the proposed API ... [creates] yet another alternative (and
> mutually incompatible) event loop system in the stdlib ...

Futures are a blocking construct; they don't involve an event loop.