[Python-Dev] Status of PEP 3145 - Asynchronous I/O for subprocess.popen

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:45:01 -0400, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On 03/27/2014 09:16 PM, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> > But here's the thing: I can build enough using asyncio in 30-40 lines
> > of Python to offer something like the above API. The problem is that
> > it really has no natural home. It uses asyncio, so makes no sense to
> > put in subprocess. It doesn't fit the typical asyncio behavior, so
> > doesn't make sense to put in asyncio. The required functionality isn't
> > big enough to warrant a submodule anywhere. Heck, it's even way too
> > small to toss into an external PyPI module.
> 
> Seems perfect for the Cheesehop to me.

Indeed.  I heard a rumor[*] that there's at least one package in the
cheeseshop that consists of a one-liner.

On the other hand, we have multiprocessing examples in the docs that are
longer than that, so it sounds like a great asyncio example to me,
especially given that Victor says we don't have enough examples yet.

--David

[*] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/first  It's not *actually* a one
liner, but you could write it as one, and the actual code isn't
much heavier :)