[Python-Dev] Getting Tulip (PEP 3156) into the 3.4 stdlib, marked provisional, named asyncio

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 Sep 2013 02:52, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
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>> In terms of naming, would you consider "concurrent.asyncio"? When we
created that parent namespace for futures, one of the other suggested
submodules discussed was the standard event loop API.
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> Hm. I want the threading and event world to be very clearly separate and
different, since accidentally combining them is disastrous. So the
concurrent package is the *last* place where I want asyncio to live. (And I
realize there is also some multiprocessing support in that package -- but
it still uses threads to wait for things.)

Makes sense to me!

Cheers,
Nick.

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> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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