[Python-Dev] PEP 3156 - Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted

[Jesse Noller]

On Friday, December 21, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Dear python-dev *and* python-ideas,
> 
> I am posting PEP 3156 here for early review and discussion. As you can
> see from the liberally sprinkled TBD entries it is not done, but I am
> about to disappear on vacation for a few weeks and I am reasonably
> happy with the state of things so far. (Of course feedback may change
> this. :-) Also, there has already been some discussion on python-ideas
> (and even on Twitter) so I don't want python-dev to feel out of the
> loop -- this *is* a proposal for a new standard library module. (But
> no, I haven't picked the module name yet. :-)
> 
> There's an -- also incomplete -- reference implementation at
> http://code.google.com/p/tulip/ -- unlike the first version of tulip,
> this version actually has (some) unittests.
> 
> Let the bikeshedding begin!
> 
> (Oh, happy holidays too. :-)
> 
> -- 
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido (http://python.org/~guido))
> 
I really do like tulip as the name. It's quite pretty.