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

[Brian Quinlan]

On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:21, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 3/6/2010 4:20 AM, Brian Quinlan wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 03:21, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com
>>> <mailto:brian at sweetapp.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    import futures
>>>
>>>
>>> +1 on the idea, -1 on the name. It's too similar to "from __future__
>>> import ...".
>>>
>>> Also, the PEP should probably link to the discussions on stdlib-sig?
>>
>> I thoug ht about that but this discussion is spread over many threads
>> and many months.
>
> This is pretty typical. I would say just that, and link to the first.
> "This PEP was discussed over many months in many threads in the  
> stdlib-sig list. The first was .... . Python-dev discussion occured  
> in <this thread>.

I'll add that.

Cheers,
Brian