[Python-Dev] async __setitem__

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> What if we're assigning to
>> multiple targets, do the run in parallel? How is tuple unpacking
>> handled? How is augmented assignment handled?
>>
>> If we allow asynchronous assignment, do we allow asynchronous deletion as
>> well?
>>
>
> Yeah, we'd kind of be letting the camel's nose in
> here. There's no obvious place to stop until *every*
> dunder method has an async counterpart.


Exactly. We should not go here at all.

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