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

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

> On 06/03/2010 23:37, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking for a while that it would be a big help
>> if there were one, standardised module in the stdlib for
>> handling async events, and all the other gui toolkits
>> etc. were made to use it.
>>
>>  Wouldn't it have to be the Tcl event loop then?
>

I image he means a standardized Abstract Base Class, which each GUI toolkit
would subclass.  That's more or less how Twisted's "reactors" work.  That
way non-GUI async code can just use the ABC and not worry about what event
loop is running underneath (be it TCL, GTK, or just poll()).
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