[Python-Dev] PEP 492: async/await in Python; version 5

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 May 2015 at 22:25, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
[Paul:]

> >> I'd be interested in writing, for instructional purposes, a toy but
> >> complete event loop. But I'm *not* really interested in trying to
> >> reverse engineer the required interface.
> >
> > This is a great idea. What kind of application do you have in mind?
>
> At this point, *all* I'm thinking of is a toy. So, an implementation
> somewhat parallel to asyncio, but where the event loop just passes
> control to the next task - so no IO multiplexing. Essentially Greg
> Ewing's example up to, but not including, "Waiting for External
> Events". And ideally I'd like to think that "Waiting for Resources"
> can be omitted in favour of reusing
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-sync.html and
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-queue.html. My fear is,
> however, that those parts of asyncio aren't reusable for other event
> loops, and every event loop implementation has to reinvent those
> wheels.
>

It was never a goal of asyncio to have parts that were directly reusable by
other event loops without pulling in (almost) all of asyncio. The
interoperability offered by asyncio allows other event loops to implement
the same low-level interface as asyncio, or to build on top of asyncio.
(This is why the event loop uses callbacks and isn't coroutines/generators
all the way down.) Note that asyncio.get_event_loop() may return a loop
implemented by some other framework, and the rest of asyncio will then use
that event loop. This is enabled by the EventLoopPolicy interface.


> When I say "the required interface" I'm thinking in terms of "what's
> needed to allow reuse of the generic parts of asyncio". If nothing of
> asyncio is generic in those terms, then the exercise will be futile
> (except in the negative sense of confirming that there are no reusable
> async components in the stdlib).
>
> Paul
>

What do you hope to learn or teach by creating this toy example? And how do
you define "a complete event loop"?

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